Stale-Document Poisoning: When Outdated Retrieval Overrides Correct Model Answers

arXiv:2609.31342 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

Benchmark — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
RAG — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Steering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 2× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
Sycophancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Activation Patching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alignment Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes