3 papers
cs.CL2026
Mitigating Database Leakage in RAG Systems with Keyword-Grounded Fact Substitution
Ziliang Zhang, Yubo Zhu, Wei Tong +4
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for combining large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources. However, RAG systems remain vuln…
cs.CR2026
PURPOSE: Poisoning Conflict Resolution in RAG via Proxy-Fact-Grounded Updates
Zijian Wang, Yubo Zhu, Muzhi Dong +7
In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), post-retrieval conflict resolution arbitrates among noisy or contradictory retrieved passages. However, the robustness of this safeguard ag…
cs.CL2025
The LLM Already Knows: Estimating LLM-Perceived Question Difficulty via Hidden Representations
Yubo Zhu, Dongrui Liu, Zecheng Lin +3
Estimating the difficulty of input questions as perceived by large language models (LLMs) is essential for accurate performance evaluation and adaptive inference. Existing methods…