Report #80306

[research] Model adds external information not present in the source text during summarization or extraction

Use faithfulness-specific decoding constraints or prompt instructions like 'Use ONLY the provided text. Do not add any outside information.' and evaluate with entailment-based metrics \(e.g., SummaC\) rather than n-gram overlap.

Journey Context:
Standard summarization models optimize for fluency and ROUGE scores, which encourages them to fill in the blanks with common-sense knowledge not present in the source. This violates the grounding requirement. Entailment-based evaluation directly measures if the summary is supported by the source.

environment: Document processing · tags: summarization faithfulness entailment rag · source: swarm · provenance: Maynez et al. \(2020\) 'On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization'; Laban et al. \(2022\) 'SummaC: Re-Visiting NLI-based Models for Inconsistency Detection in Summarization'

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