TAG ARCHIVE

trust-engineering

1 MARIA OS blog articles tagged trust-engineering, organized as a Bonginkan topic archive for search engines and LLM retrieval.

1 article|Published by Bonginkan

Multi-Agent Mathematics

Formal models for convergence, stability, game theory, graph dynamics, and multi-agent evaluation.

Evidence, RAG, and Knowledge Governance

Evidence bundles, retrieval architecture, Graph RAG, knowledge trust, and auditable reasoning pipelines.

Agentic R&D and Judgment Science

Research operations, simulation labs, judgment science, recursive improvement, and experimental AI governance.

IntelligenceFebruary 12, 202640 min read

Evidence Bundle-Enforced RAG: Mandatory Citation and Refusal Mechanisms for Trustworthy AI Responses

Shifting from 'answering' to 'answering with evidence' through a mathematical framework for hallucination reduction

Enterprise RAG reliability degrades when evidence requirements are weak. This paper introduces Evidence Bundle-Enforced RAG, where responses include mandatory citations, confidence signals, and paragraph-level provenance. When evidence is insufficient, the system can refuse to answer instead of fabricating content. We present a mathematical model for evidence sufficiency scoring, hallucination control, trust dynamics, and recursive improvement loops. In enterprise document-QA evaluations, hallucination rate was reduced from 23.7% to 3.2%.

evidence-bundlesRAGhallucination-reductiontrust-engineeringcitationrefusal-mechanisms