Wenbiao Du
2025
E-Verify: A Paradigm Shift to Scalable Embedding-based Factuality Verification
Zeyang Liu
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Jingfeng Xue
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Xiuqi Yang
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Wenbiao Du
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Jiarun Fu
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Junbao Chen
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Wenjie Guo
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Yong Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable text-generation capabilities, yet struggle with factual consistency, motivating growing interest in factuality verification. Existing factuality verification methods typically follow a Decompose-Then-Verify paradigm, which improves granularity but suffers from poor scalability and efficiency. We propose a novel Decompose-Embed-Interact paradigm that shifts factuality verification from costly text-level reasoning to efficient alignment in embedding space, effectively mitigating the scalability bottlenecks and computational inefficiencies inherent to prior approaches. While the proposed paradigm promises scalable verification, its implementation faces three practical challenges: efficient decomposition, factually faithful embedding, and accurate verification in embedding space. To address these challenges, we introduce E-Verify, a lightweight framework that resolves them through three specially designed modules, each aligned with a specific stage of the paradigm and designed to preserve scalability and efficiency. Experiments demonstrate that E-Verify significantly improves both decomposition and verification efficiency while maintaining competitive accuracy. These results confirm that the proposed paradigm enables scalable and fine-grained factuality verification with minimal performance trade-offs.
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