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RAG Query Rewriting: Does It Preserve the Question?

Evaluation protocol for RAG query rewriting in 2026: intent contracts, paired qualifier fixtures, constraint preservation vs regression, McNemar tests, and release, fallback or clarify rules.

October 19, 2026• 29 min read
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LLM conflicting sources: a counterfactual fusion test

A 2026 evidence review of LLM source conflict resolution, reconstructing tabular-fusion F1 results and specifying entity masking, source-dependence tests, abstention metrics and reproducible provenance.

October 19, 2026• 21 min read
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Conformal RAG Guarantees: A Loss-and-Denominator Audit

A 2026 audit of conformal RAG guarantees: compare set coverage, bounded loss and selective error, inspect SAFER's finite budget, and reproduce a scoped binomial test with synthetic counterexamples.

October 18, 2026• 22 min read
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Multi-Hop RAG Citation Completeness: An Evidence-Set Test

A 2026 evidence-set test for multi-hop RAG citation completeness: distinguish answer correctness, joint support and missing hops, preserve source versions, and audit alternative evidence routes.

October 7, 2026• 23 min read
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RAG evaluation dataset leakage audit as sources change

A 2026 audit guide for RAG evaluation sets: trace question and source lineage, test answer and training exposure, compare fixed with rolling corpora, and report paired score uncertainty.

September 28, 2026• 21 min read
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LLM Context Compression Evidence Loss: An Acceptance Test

A 2026 guide to testing LLM context compression for evidence loss, with paired source bundles, exact-span scoring, citation-grounding data, and release rules for defensible answers.

September 25, 2026• 24 min read
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LLM Judge Groundedness Evaluation Calibration Protocol

A 2026 protocol for calibrating an LLM groundedness judge with controlled contradictions, paired judge-by-generator tests, confidence intervals, human review, and release gates.

September 22, 2026• 20 min read
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RAG Fault Isolation: Is the Answer Defensible?

A 2026 fault-isolation protocol for RAG answers, covering six observable boundaries, claim-level metrics, controlled evidence tests, source currency, and paired evaluation.

September 22, 2026• 22 min read
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