Principled Context Engineering for RAG: Statistical Guarantees via Conformal Prediction.

@inproceedings{chakraborty-2026-principled, author = {Debashish Chakraborty and Eugene Yang and Daniel Khashabi and Dawn J. Lawrie and Kevin Duh}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Principled Context Engineering for RAG: Statistical Guarantees via Conformal Prediction}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16484}, pages = {537--546}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_45}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_45} }