CHSR-RRF: A curriculum-gated hybrid retrieval framework with reciprocal rank fusion and leakage-aware benchmarking for educational RAG

Terence Ateya, Zavier Ndum Ndum, Jicheng Fu +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly used in educational question answering, but standard retrievers optimize topical relevance without enforcing curriculum validit…