@inproceedings{sun-etal-2026-diagnosing, title = "Diagnosing {LLM} Arbitration Behavior over Pre-evidence Epistemic States in {RAG}-based Fact-Checking", author = "Sun, Yuxi and Shang, Wenbo and Gao, Wei and Huang, Xin and Ma, Jing", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.714/", pages = "16563--16594", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }