How Do LLMs Cite? - A Mechanistic Interpretation of Attribution in RAG.

@inproceedings{dort-2026-llms, author = {Ian van Dort and Maria Heuss}, 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 = {{How Do LLMs Cite? - A Mechanistic Interpretation of Attribution in RAG}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part III}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16485}, pages = {458--473}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_35}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_35} }