2026
From Extraction to Deduction: Resolving Functional Misalignment in RAG via a Collaborative Critic-Reasoner Framework
ICML 2026poster
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems suffer from a fundamental functional misalignment where retrievers optimize for semantic relevance, often recalling documents with high background utility but factually erroneous answer spans that generators blindly adopt as cognitive shortcuts. To resolv…