arXiv:2607.22584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines rank retrieved documents by semantic similarity alone, without accounting for source provenance or credibility. This work evaluates a simple and interpretable modification to RAG retrieval ranking that

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[Submitted on 8 Jun 2026]

Title:Source-Aware Reranking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Reliability Prior Approach

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Abstract:Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines rank retrieved documents by semantic similarity alone, without accounting for source provenance or credibility. This work evaluates a simple and interpretable modification to RAG retrieval ranking that incorporates domain-informed source reliability priors. Each document is assigned a prior lambda(s) based on its source type, and retrieval scores are reweighted using score(q, d) = sim(q, d) * lambda(s). The framework is evaluated against a similarity-only baseline on a 120-document health-domain corpus. In this controlled setting, source-aware reranking improves Precision@5 from 0.48 to 0.72 and reduces average adversarial document retrieval under the evaluated threat model, where low-credibility sources are identifiable via metadata. All experiments were executed on Rosie, the high-performance computing cluster at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, which provided the GPU-accelerated infrastructure necessary to run the full experimental pipeline reliably and reproducibly. These results suggest a potential mitigation strategy for source quality degradation in RAG pipelines, within the limits of the experimental setup described.

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From: Hugo Garrido-Lestache Belinchon [

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