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October 28, 2026 ai_technology research

Don't Pick a Winner: Knowledge Conflicts Need a Prior, Not a Rule

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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. Each rule is confidently wrong in some deployment. In a decision-theoretic model of two sources, t

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