Evaluating the Causal Effect of Chain-of-Thought on Groundedness in Tool-Use Agents via Counterfactual Mutations

Kateryna Solonko

Keywords: Chain-of-Thought (CoT), Groundedness / Faithfulness, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Counterfactual Evaluation / Causal Inference, Hallucination Mitigation

Submission Number: 374