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  "title": "Machine Evidence Intake and Representation Fidelity: Methods Dossier",
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  "abstract": "This methods dossier examines how language models intake, represent, retrieve, and transmit supplied evidence. It finds no universally best serialization: performance depends on model, task, evidence budget, context position, and what information must survive. Existing research provides useful tools for measuring factual recovery and citation behavior, but direct evidence remains limited for preserving epistemic status, provenance, uncertainty, scope, and relationships—especially across heterogeneous agents and repeated transmission. The dossier proposes a benchmark built around hidden canonical evidence graphs, controlled and native-format renderings, multiple models and context budgets, position variation, counterfactual contamination checks, and separate measures for recovery, attribution, uncertainty, omission, unsupported inference, and recursive survival. It is a literature-grounded methods proposal, not a new controlled experiment; its claims and proposed metrics require empirical validation.",
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