Lost in Conversation or Lost in Translation? Diagnosing Multi-Turn Degradation in RAG

arXiv:2609.36700 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Benchmark — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 25× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• F1 Score — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Graph — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Planning — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 2× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Retrieval — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Associative Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

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