Language Models Show Conformity Bias in RAG: When the Majority Endorses a Poisoned Claim

arXiv:2610.41012 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-29

Updated: 2026-10-29

Terminology

• Conformity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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