Multi-Agent Citation Integrity Verification with Chain-of-Evidence Reasoning and Gated Behavior Tree Policies
The integrity of scientific literature depends critically on accurate citations, yet miscitation—where references fail to support cited claims—remains a pervasive problem. Existing detection approaches based on semantic similarity or graph anomaly detection struggle with nuanced logical relationships and multi-hop reasoning, while LLM-based methods face hallucination risks and prohibitive computational costs. Moreover, current LLM agent architectures rely on unconstrained generation, lacking verifiable and safe execution guarantees. We propose CiteGuard, a multi-agent framework that unifies chain-of-evidence reasoning, graph-enhanced detection, and […]