Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-25 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-09-25 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-28
Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-28
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is often used to address outdated knowledge by providing external evidence. But retrieval helps only when that evidence is still valid. We identify a temporal alignment failure, stale-document poisoning, in which outdated evidence makes a model wrong despite answering correctly without retrieval. We construct a benchmark of 317 verified knowledge reversals acro