Faithfulness-QA: A Counterfactual Entity Substitution Dataset for Training Context-Faithful RAG Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models frequently produce answers grounded in parametric memory rather than the retrieved context, undermining the core promise of retrieval augmentation. A fundamental obstacle to fixing this unfaithfulness is the lack of training data that explicitly requires models to prefer context over internal knowledge. We introduce Faithfulness-QA, a large-scale dataset of 99,094 samples constructed through counterfactual entity substitution. Starting from two established extractive QA benchmarks--SQuAD and TriviaQA--we automatically identify answer-bearing named entities in each context, replace them with type-consistent alternatives drawn from a curated bank ...
| Authors | Li Ju, Junzhe Wang, Qi Zhang |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 28 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 29 April 2026 |
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