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arxivcs.CRcs.AI2026-07-22

GPE: Evaluating Robust Evidence Aggregation for Fact Verification under Controllable GEO-Style Poisoning

Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Xiaomei Yuan, Pengtao Kou, Jiamou Liu, Zhen Li, Liehuang Zhu

Large language models increasingly use search tools to retrieve up-to-date information, introducing a new attack surface in which retrieved documents can be manipulated. This risk is amplified by the development of generative engine optimization, which can make selected content more likely to be retrieved, cited, and adopted by models. Existing fact-verification benchmarks and evaluation frameworks do not provide the controlled evidence environments needed to assess robustness against GEO poisoning. We therefore propose GPE, which consists of a multi-domain fact-verification benchmark and an evaluation framework for controlling evidence sources and poisoning ratios. Experiments across multiple verification methods and poisoning attacks demonstrate that GPE exposes robustness degradation and efficiency trade-offs that cannot be observed through clean evaluation alone, confirming the need to evaluate fact verification under adversarial evidence environments.

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