CiteCheck: Retrieval-Grounded Detection of LLM Citation Hallucinations in Scientific Text

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arXiv:2605.27700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate scientific reports, but they can produce references that appear plausible while containing corrupted metadata or pointing to papers that do not exist. We introduce CiteCheck, a hybrid framework for citation hallucination detection that verifies whether a citation corresponds to a real scholarly work and whether its metadata is faithful to that work. CiteCheck retrieves candida