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Aug 2026
How Robust Are Automated Fact-Checking Systems? A Cross-Benchmark Evaluation
On ClimateCheck claim-only and fine-tuned models outperform zero-shot LLM and top-performing AVeriTeC 2025 systems, highlighting that noisy evidence can degrade veracity prediction and replacing retrieved evidence with gold annotations improves veracity accuracy, confirming retrieval remains primary bottleneck.
Aida Usmanova, Z. Iklassov, Markus Leippold et al.
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