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We prove that for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, the hallucination rate on factual queries is upper-bounded by a quantity we call *retrieval coverage* — the probability that the retrieved context contains the necessary supporting evidence. Concretely, under a closed-world assumption and a mild calibration condition on the generator, we show that $\Pr[\text{hallucinate}] \leq 1 - \rho + \delta$, where $\rho$ is retrieval coverage and $\delta$ is the generator's residual leakage.

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now standard in production LLM applications, but its failure modes are typically reported anecdotally and resist apples-to-apples comparison. We propose a taxonomy of 14 RAG failure modes organized along three orthogonal axes (retrieval, fusion, generation).

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems depend on embedding models to measure semantic similarity, yet practitioners routinely copy prompt templates (instruction prefixes) from model cards without testing how sensitive their retrieval pipeline is to this choice. We systematically evaluate 10 prompt templates across 100 diverse sentence pairs on two architecturally distinct embedding models: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (a model trained without instruction prefixes) and BGE-large-en-v1.

This paper investigates the relationship between prompt injection and rag through controlled experiments on 28 diverse datasets totaling 19,998 samples. We propose a novel methodology that achieves 8.

Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face a fundamental completeness-precision dilemma: vector-based approaches optimize for precise needle-in-haystack retrieval but sacrifice comprehensive context through isolated chunk retrieval, while knowledge graph systems aim for completeness but suffer from query specificity challenges and complex traversal overhead. We present **Topological RAG**, a graph-based architecture that reconstructs semantic "small worlds" through weighted multi-hop traversal, prioritizing comprehensive corpus coverage over retrieval speed.

Embedding models underpin modern retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and recommendation systems. We present a systematic evaluation of six failure modes across five widely-deployed bi-encoder embedding models and four cross-encoder models using 286 manually-crafted adversarial sentence pairs and 85 control pairs (371 pairs total).

We present the Optimistic Response Verification System (ORVS) with Quantum Semantic (QS) retrieval, a verification-first architecture for specialist clinical AI in rheumatology. ORVS generates candidate responses optimistically, then subjects each to a structured verification loop scored across four weighted dimensions: clinical accuracy (0.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are widely deployed in production AI pipelines, yet standardized, executable evaluation frameworks remain scarce. Existing tools like RAGAS, ARES, and TruLens require significant manual setup and are difficult to reproduce across domains.

We present ORVS (Optimistic Reasoning with Verification and Synthesis), a novel clinical reasoning architecture for AI agents that combines stochastic directed acyclic graphs (DAG) with proof-of-history verification and optimistic computation. Unlike conventional RAG pipelines that retrieve-then-generate, ORVS generates clinical reasoning optimistically, then verifies against a knowledge graph of 12,200+ medical documents, augmenting only on verification failure.