A Hierarchical Consistency Framework for Auditing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

arXiv:2609.07075 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-07

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 12 tables, 1 GitHub repository

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

Terminology

• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hierarchical Consistency Framework — 2× in this paper
• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Answer Consistency Score — 1× in this paper
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes

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