Quantum-Inspired Trace-Augmented Evidence Selection for Reasoning over Structured Hypothesis Spaces

In three linesLLMs fail on legal tasks requiring rigorous evidence selection. EP-HUBO frames CoT fragment selection as a higher-order binary combinatorial optimisation problem, weighted by relevance/specificity/distinctiveness. Evaluated on legal benchmarks using simulated annealing and Dirac-3 quantum hardware.

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