Ranking Is Not Deciding: Benchmark Shortcuts and Operating-Point Collapse in Query-Time RAG Poisoning Defenses

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Pushkal Kumar, Arvin Sahaym)

Summary by Cyber Security News27 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.33849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-time filters that screen each retrieved document before it reaches the generator are the dominant published defense against retrieval-augmented generation poisoning, and they report near-perfect detection on domain benchmarks.

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