ReliableRAG: Combating Misinformation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reliability-Guided Reasoning Chains

arXiv:2608.25487 · cs.CL, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• RAG — 41× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 28× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 12× in this paper
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Question Answering — 10× in this paper
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Knowledge Graph — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AUC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Computational overhead — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Graph Construction — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Indirect Effect — 3× in this paper
• Knowledge graphs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 3× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Source-based Synthesis — 3× in this paper
• Triple-based Synthesis — 3× in this paper
• Alignment Methods — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Exact Match — 2× in this paper
• Generalizability — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Area Under the Curve — 1× in this paper
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• True Positive Rate — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Towards More Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Evaluating RAG Under Adversarial Poisoning Attacks
• Evaluating the Retrieval Component in LLM-Based Question Answering Systems
• ALoFTRAG: Automatic Local Fine Tuning for Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Resisting Contextual Interference in RAG via Parametric-Knowledge Reinforcement
• Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training
• ChatIE: Zero-Shot Information Extraction via Chatting with ChatGPT
• Worse than Zero-shot? A Fact-Checking Dataset for Evaluating the Robustness of RAG Against Misleading Retrievals
• LevelRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Multi-hop Logic Planning over Rewriting Augmented Searchers
• Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Survey

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