arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-10
WildTrace: Benchmarking Natural Evidence Trails in Long-Context Reasoning
Zixin Chen, Peng Liu, Haobo Li, Rui Sheng, Jianhong Tu, Xiaodong Deng, et al.
Answering complex questions over long documents frequently requires integrating evidence that the source itself disperses naturally across distant passages. In an incident report, the operating condition, design flaw, and missed safety check that jointly explain a disaster may ap…