Generated answers sometimes added correct background knowledge not explicitly supported by retrieved evidence, an unsupported-answer behavior the authors flag as requiring faithfulness evaluation¶

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q2 i? In qualitative grounded-QA trials across definition, relation, prerequisite, and cross-lecture question types, generated answers sometimes added correct but unsupported background knowledge. → Sahil Al Farib 2026

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Sahil Al Farib 2026¶

Sahil Al Farib, Momota Ahsana Meem, Sheikh Redwanul Islam, and Md. Tanvir Raihan. (2026). Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction for Multi-Lecture Educational Reasoning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03161 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.03161

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Qualitative observation from the retrieval and QA evaluation (Table VII, Fig. 6) over the three seed questions and four question types. The limitations section repeats that "answer generation may add unsupported background knowledge even when it is correct."

"Definition, relation, prerequisite, and cross-lecture trials retrieved relevant concepts and produced grounded descriptions, but generated answers sometimes added correct background knowledge not explicitly supported by retrieved evidence."

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