Claim-Gated Source-Risk Auditing for Generative Search
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Abstract (arXiv)
A generative search answer can cite a supported passage yet omit a source relationship that changes its interpretation. We specify a claim-gated audit of the query-source-answer tuple. An omission is resolved only when relationship evidence, answer adoption, materiality, and disclosure are all observed; incomplete evidence remains unresolved rather than being treated as independence. The specification separates this endpoint from citation support and review priority, and binds decisions to versioned evidence spans. A reference checker makes the record contract executable. On an exhaustive synthetic suite, it reproduces all 81 three-state predicate combinations and rejects 192 deliberately malformed records. Common-guard baselines and predicate ablations isolate endpoint logic from missing-evidence handling, while controlled transitions check support separation and evidence removal. These are finite contract-conformance results, not detector accuracy or evidence of improved user outcomes. We define the independent annotation, held-out evaluation, and paired utility tests still required to establish semantic validity and deployment benefit.
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