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Relevance Is Not Sufficient Evidence: Detecting Evidence Gaps Before Generation in RAG

arXiv:2609.37469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds large language models in external sources, but retrieved passages often name the right entities without pro

30 Sept 2026

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CacheRepair: Learning to Repair Cross-Chunk Context in RAG for KV Cache Fusion

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arXiv:2609.35139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-document retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) requires a language model to process multiple retrieved text chunks before answering a question. Pre

researcharxiv-cs-lg

29 Sept 2026

The Temporal Tug-of-War: Visualizing and Detecting RAG Conflicts in Diffusion Models via Trajectory Variance

arXiv:2609.31684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) introduces a specific failure mode in discrete diffusion language models: when retrieved context contradicts para

29 Sept 2026

Attributable Post-Rationalization in RAG Citations: A Controlled Reproduction and an RLVR Comparison

arXiv:2609.23053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A RAG system can hand you the right answer and cite a source it did not actually use. Models output these unfaithful citations via post-rationalization:

22 Sept 2026

Less Is More: Graph-free Multimodal RAG via Multi-signal Late Fusion

arXiv:2609.19417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely used for multimodal, cross-document question answering. However, building corpus-level graphs

18 Sept 2026

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Beyond Static RAG: An Adaptive, Tri-Metric Routing Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference on Commodity GPUs

arXiv:2609.17564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on commodity GPUs such as the NVIDIA T4 (16 GB VRAM) exposes a practical failure mode we call the Compres

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

17 Sept 2026

Decoupling Error Attribution in Cloud-Native Graph-RAG: A Data Integrity Diagnostic Framework

arXiv:2609.13324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-RAG systems often assume pristine data quality, overlooking the severe impact of perturbations in cloud-native databases. This paper proposes a

15 Sept 2026

An Auditable Symbolic-RAG-Generative AI Architecture for Goal-Oriented Conversation Orchestration

arXiv:2609.07152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-oriented conversational systems must answer factual questions, understand visitor-provided information, and advance business objectives without bec

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

10 Sept 2026

Local Ai

CacheWeaver: Cache-Aware Evidence Ordering for Efficient Grounded RAG Inference

arXiv:2606.19667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves factual grounding, but it also lengthens prompts and raises prefill cost. Prefix caching in serving en

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

7 Sept 2026

Beyond Visual Boundaries: Rethinking Scene Segmentation for Movie RAG

arXiv:2608.28699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding long-form video remains a fundamental challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Sparse frame sampling fails to capture fine-

researcharxiv-cs-cv

1 Sept 2026

Cloud and On-Premises Deployment of Uzbek Legal RAG via Targeted Retriever Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.29284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying large language models for legal question answering raises challenges that general-purpose leaderboards do not capture, particularly for low-re

1 Sept 2026

PonsRAG: A Pons-Inspired RAG Bridging Cognitive Islands for Coordinated Long Narrative Reasoning

arXiv:2608.25486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long Narrative Reasoning is an essential capability for processing and reasoning over complex narratives. While retrieval-augmented generation provide

27 Aug 2026

SCAR: Semantic Continuity-Aware Retrieval for Efficient Context Expansion in RAG

arXiv:2606.16661v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fixed-length chunking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) often leads to boundary fragmentation, where critical evidence is split across s

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

25 Aug 2026

SchemaRouter: Field-Aware Tool Routing for Efficient Heterogeneous Agentic RAG

arXiv:2608.21375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heterogeneous agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems increasingly orchestrate external APIs, internal databases, vector stores, and graph

25 Aug 2026

WARP: Wasserstein-Aligned RAG for Population Opinions

arXiv:2608.22859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RAG systems are increasingly used to summarize what large collections of documents say. A user asks 'What do people think about X?' and receives an an

25 Aug 2026

DSPrompt: Dynamic Soft Prompt Defense Against M-RAG Corruption

arXiv:2608.16536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (M-RAG) is increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks where malicious data are crafted to produce embedd

18 Aug 2026

SMA: Who Said That? Auditing Membership Leakage in Semi-Black-box RAG Controlling

arXiv:2508.09105v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and its Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) significantly improve the knowledge coverage and conte

18 Aug 2026

QV-PIC: Query-Aware Visual Position-Independent Caching for Efficient RAG Serving

arXiv:2608.12121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) repeatedly prefills identical text chunks across queries, incurring redundant computations. Position-Independent

13 Aug 2026

Applications

RAG-3DSG: Enhancing 3D Scene Graphs with Re-Shot Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2601.10168v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary 3D Scene Graph (3DSG) can enhance various downstream tasks in robotics by leveraging structured semantic representations, yet

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

RAG-Audio: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Faithful Brain-to-Audio Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.09331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-to-audio reconstruction is limited by prior domination: when a pretrained generator is conditioned on a weak neural signal, it produces realisti

SAGE: SLO-Aware Adaptive Retrieval for Production RAG Systems

arXiv:2608.08237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in production operate under strict service level objectives (SLOs) on tail latency and infrastructure cos

Temporal Misgrounding in Legal RAG: A Versioned-Corpus Benchmark for French Tax Law

arXiv:2608.09393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify and quantify temporal misgrounding: the systematic retrieval and citation of the currently in-force version of a legal article when the ap

What Would Fix This RAG Failure? Auditing Counterfactual Response with Paired Evidence Interventions

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arXiv:2608.08944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A failed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) answer can be consistent with several unseen responses to evidence repair. We introduce Pair-ID, an offl

Align-RAG: Alignment Is All You Need for TSFM In-Context Learning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.05571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented forecasting promises to adapt frozen Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) to new domains without fine-tuning, but recent methods ty

7 Aug 2026

Where Privacy Risk Lives in English-Source Multilingual RAG: A Stage-Decomposed Audit Across Five Query Languages

arXiv:2608.05163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common assumption holds that switching to a non-English language makes a multilingual RAG system easier to attack for personal information. We test th

7 Aug 2026

Agents

Before Reasoning Can Fail: Pre-Evidence Procedural Failures in Agentic RAG

arXiv:2608.02011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems can fail before evidence-conditioned reasoning is tested: an agent may retrieve candidate snipp

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

5 Aug 2026

JKO-RAG: Distributional Retrieval as Wasserstein Free-Energy Gradient Flow

arXiv:2607.24776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RAG pipelines return a ranked list of passages. We argue this is a mismatch: the downstream language model conditions on a set, and the selection prob

29 Jul 2026

ScalableRAG: High-Quality RAG at Zero Ingestion Cost

arXiv:2607.25135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in RAG aim to optimize for performance by paying high ingestion costs for knowledge ingestion: building knowledge graphs or extracting S

29 Jul 2026

Three Sides of Retrieval: Factorial Evidence for Document-Side, Query-Side, and Answer-Side Complementarity in RAG

arXiv:2607.24781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RAG systems rely on chunking, which destroys structural information in documents. Existing heading-based retrieval (Jeong et al., 2025) requires multi

29 Jul 2026

Agents

End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent

arXiv:2607.06964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) a

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

9 Jul 2026

Modality Relevance is not Modality Utility: Post-hoc Selective Modality Escalation for Cost-Aware Multimodal RAG

arXiv:2607.05438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a generator in evidence drawn from heterogeneous modalities -- text, tables, and images. The d

8 Jul 2026

What Survives Into Context: A Diagnostic for Budget-Constrained Multi-Hop RAG and When Submodular Evidence Packing Improves It

arXiv:2607.00725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) under a fixed reader-context budget forces a selection problem: of the evidence retrieved, only a fraction can be s

2 Jul 2026

Beyond the Reranker: Do RAG Retrieval Enhancements Help Once a Strong Reranker Is Present?

arXiv:2606.28367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is routinely extended with methods meant to improve retrieval: query expansion, hierarchical and cross-document s

Regime-Aware Peer Specialization for Robust RAG under Heterogeneous Knowledge Conflicts

arXiv:2606.30518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language models by grounding generation in external context. However, it can be fragile when the retrieved

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Sifei at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hybrid Retrieval and Query Rewriting for Multi-Turn RAG

arXiv:2606.28352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is challenging due to evolving user intent, conversational noise, and strict context limits. We propos

The Interference Gap: Comparing Retrieval Bounds in Human Memory and RAG Systems

arXiv:2606.28327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do retrieval bounds compare between human episodic memory and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems under semantic interference? We present

Freshness and the Limits of Heuristic Trend Detection in Temporal RAG

arXiv:2509.19376v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a lightweight, model-agnostic temporal layer for RAG and use cybersecurity data to separate two problems that are usually conflated

29 Jun 2026

Quantifying Prior Dominance in RAG Systems

arXiv:2606.23695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds Large Language Models in external knowledge, yet current evaluations rely on discrete heuristics that suf

24 Jun 2026

NightFeats @ MMU-RAGent NeurIPS 2025: A Context-Optimized Multi-Agent RAG System for the Text-to-Text Track

arXiv:2606.11199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present NightFeats, a structured multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system submitted to the MMU-RAGent competition at NeurIPS 2025, w

11 Jun 2026

The Injection Paradox: Brand-Level Suppression in Safety-Trained LLM Recommendations via RAG Context Injection

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arXiv:2606.09204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a reproducible failure mode of safety training in RAG-based LLM recommendation -- the Injection Paradox -- in which prompt injections embedde

9 Jun 2026

MHA-RAG: Improving Efficiency, Accuracy, and Consistency by Encoding Exemplars as Soft Prompts

arXiv:2510.05363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adapting Foundation Models to new domains with limited training data is challenging and computationally expensive. While prior work has demonstrated

8 Jun 2026

When Retrieval Doesn't Help: A Large-Scale Study of Biomedical RAG

arXiv:2606.04127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical question answering is a high-stakes setting where factual errors can have serious consequences. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely v

4 Jun 2026

UniD^3: A Knowledge Graph-Enhanced RAG Framework for Drug-Disease Discovery and Reasoning

arXiv:2606.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systematic characterization of drug-disease relationships is essential for drug discovery and repurposing, yet is hindered by the heterogeneity and rapi

2 Jun 2026

Retriever Portfolios: A Principled Approach to Adaptive RAG

arXiv:2605.31176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems typically rely on a single retriever and a single set of hyperparameters, despite facing highly heterogeneo

1 Jun 2026

Analyzing Quality-Latency-Resource Trade-offs in a Technical Documentation RAG Assistant Using LoRA Adaptation

arXiv:2605.28222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study quality-latency-resource trade-offs in a documentation-grounded retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that uses Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA

28 May 2026

Relevant Is Not Warranted: Evidence-Force Calibration for Cited RAG

arXiv:2605.28044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cited RAG evaluation often treats visible sources as a grounding signal, but a real, topically relevant citation can still under-warrant the attached wo

28 May 2026

The Coverage Illusion: From Pre-retrieval Routing Failure to Post-retrieval Cascades in a Production RAG System

arXiv:2605.27220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern RAG pipelines, query augmentation methods such as HyDE and query expansion are applied to every query, resulting in substantial LLM inference

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

27 May 2026

RADAR: Defending RAG Dynamically against Retrieval Corruption

arXiv:2605.22041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While RAG systems are increasingly deployed in dynamic web search, temporal volatility amplifies their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Existing