AI RESEARCH
Controlling Authority Retrieval: A Missing Retrieval Objective for Authority-Governed Knowledge
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.14488v1 Announce Type: cross In any domain where knowledge accumulates under formal authority -- law, drug regulation, software security -- a later document can formally void an earlier one while remaining semantically distant from it. We formalize this as Controlling Authority Retrieval (CAR): recovering the active frontier front(cl(A_k(q))) of the authority closure of the semantic anchor set -- a different mathematical problem from argmax_d s(q,d