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From Capability Signals to Reliability Evidence: A Semi-Systematic Review of Evaluation Tools for Large Language Models

Nikesh Lagun, Kushal Budha

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2026

Abstract

This repository contains the supplementary documentation and machine-readable research data supporting a semi-systematic literature review and evidence map of large language model (LLM) reliability research. The review examines the inferential distance between observable capability signals and stronger reliability claims across four analytical areas: 1. reasoning faithfulness;2. factual grounding;3. evaluation validity; and4. evidence use in retrieval-augmented generation. The repository is intended to support reviewer inspection, study-level claim tracing, bibliographic verification, and methodological audit. It does not contain copyrighted full texts of the reviewed publications.

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