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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems extend large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources but introduce new attack surfaces through the retrieval pipeline. In particular, adversaries can poison retrieval corpora so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Scott Thornton

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly mitigates the hallucinations and domain knowledge deficiency in large language models by incorporating external knowledge bases. However, the multi-module architecture of RAG introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yanming Mu , Hao Hu , Feiyang Li , Qiao Yuan , Jiang Wu , Zichuan Liu , Pengcheng Liu , Mei Wang , Hongwei Zhou , Yuling Liu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with external, up-to-date knowledge. Graph RAG has emerged as an advanced paradigm that leverages graph-based knowledge structures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiale Liu , Jiahao Zhang , Suhang Wang

Multi-tenant retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) services advertise per-account differential privacy as the operative leakage boundary: each account's queries are guaranteed to satisfy $(\varepsilon_{\text{acc}}, \delta_{\text{acc}})$-DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Florian A. D. Burnat , Brittany I. Davidson

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, reducing hallucinations and compensating for outdated information. However, recent studies have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Pankayaraj Pathmanathan , Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Furong Huang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems augment large language models with external knowledge, yet introduce a critical security vulnerability: RAG Knowledge Base Leakage, wherein adversarial prompts can induce the model to divulge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuanbo Xie , Yingjie Zhang , Yulin Li , Shouyou Song , Xiaokun Chen , Zhihan Liu , Liya Su , Tingwen Liu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems introduce a critical vulnerability: contextual leakage, where adversaries exploit instruction-following to exfiltrate Personally Identifiable Information (PII) via adaptive extraction. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jin Xie , Songze Li , Guang Cheng

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as the de facto industry standard for user-facing NLP applications, offering the ability to integrate data without re-training or fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). This capability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Lukas Ammann , Sara Ott , Christoph R. Landolt , Marco P. Lehmann

The widespread adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in real-world applications has heightened concerns about the confidentiality and integrity of their proprietary knowledge bases. These knowledge bases, which play a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pengcheng Zhou , Yinglun Feng , Zhongliang Yang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates LLM hallucinations but introduces a critical vulnerability: corpus integrity. We present SilentRetrieval, a two-stage data poisoning attack that hijacks RAG systems through adversarially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiachen Qian

Although Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have been widely applied, the privacy and security risks they face, such as data leakage and data poisoning, have not been systematically addressed yet. Existing defense strategies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pengcheng Zhou , Yinglun Feng , Zhongliang Yang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains such as healthcare and law, where they rely on private, domain-specific knowledge. This capability introduces significant security risks, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Pranav Pallerla , Wilson Naik Bhukya , Bharath Vemula , Charan Ramtej Kodi

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly employed in generative AI-driven scientific workflows to integrate rapidly evolving scientific knowledge bases, yet its reliability is frequently compromised by non-determinism in their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Baiqiang Wang , Dongfang Zhao , Nathan R Tallent , Luanzheng Guo

One of the key problems in Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is that chunk-based retrieval pipelines represent the source chunks as atomic objects, mixing the information contained within such a chunk into a single vector. These…

Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending the attack surface beyond model weights to knowledge base…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mengyu Yao , Ziqi Zhang , Ning Luo , Shaofei Li , Yifeng Cai , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo , Ding Li

The growing adoption of multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) pipelines for vision-centric tasks (e.g., visual QA) introduces important privacy challenges. In particular, while mRAG provides a practical capability to connect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ali Al-Lawati , Suhang Wang

Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation (RACG) is increasingly adopted to enhance Large Language Models for software development, yet its security implications remain dangerously underexplored. This paper conducts the first systematic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tian Li , Bo Lin , Shangwen Wang , Yusong Tan

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts must answer complex questions over large collections of narrative security reports. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems help language models access external knowledge, but traditional vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dzenan Hamzic , Florian Skopik , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Andreas Rauber

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant documents from external sources to improve factual accuracy and verifiability. However, this reliance introduces new attack surfaces within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Gaurav Bagwe , Lan Zhang , Xiaoyong Yuan

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of knowledge-intensive applications, including enterprise chatbots, healthcare assistants, and agentic memory management. However, recent studies show that knowledge-extraction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhisheng Qi , Utkarsh Sahu , Li Ma , Haoyu Han , Ryan Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Nesreen Ahmed , Yushun Dong , Yue Zhao , Yu Zhang , Yu Wang
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