AI RESEARCH
Does RAG Know When Retrieval Is Wrong? Diagnosing Context Compliance under Knowledge Conflict
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.14473v1 Announce Type: new The Context-Compliance Regime in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) occurs when retrieved context dominates the final answer even when it conflicts with the model's parametric knowledge. Accuracy alone does not reveal how retrieved context causally shapes answers under such conflict. We (CDD), a belief-decomposition probe that operates at inference time and serves as an intervention mechanism for controlled retrieval conflict. Across Epi-Scale stress tests, TruthfulQA misconception injection, and crossmodel reruns, CDD exposes three patterns.