arXiv:2610.36169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A retrieval-augmented language model answers from two sources, the retrieved context and its own knowledge, and the two disagree whenever the context is incomplete or wrong. Existing methods settle the disagreement with a rule fixed at design time: follow the context, amplify it in proportion to how far it moves the model, or trust the model's memory

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BuilderIf you ship RAG, consider exposing a tunable prior on context reliability instead of hardcoding a context-vs-memory rule, since the paper shows fixed rules fail
ResearcherProvides a decision-theoretic argument that symmetric divergence carries no signal about source correctness, plus GRACE results where gains vanish without model

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