Report #2726

[research] How to automatically evaluate long-form factuality at scale

Use SAFE: decompose a response into self-contained atomic facts, then use an LLM agent to issue multi-step Google Search queries and judge whether each fact is supported; aggregate with F1@K.

Journey Context:
SAFE outperformed crowd annotators, winning 76% of disagreement cases while being 20× cheaper. It avoids static references by using dynamic search, and LongFact supplies 2,280 prompts across 38 topics. Common mistakes are evaluating long answers with a single correctness score or using preset references that miss current facts. SAFE's fact-level granularity and search grounding make it practical for ongoing benchmarking of open-domain generation.

environment: Open-domain long-form QA, content generation evaluation, and automated quality assurance. · tags: safe longfact search-augmented-evaluation atomic-facts f1atk · source: swarm · provenance: Wei, J., Yang, C., Song, X., Lu, Y., Hu, N., Huang, J., Tran, D., Peng, D., Liu, R., Huang, D., Du, C., & Le, Q. V. \(2024\). Long-form factuality in large language models. arXiv:2403.18802

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