Beyond Semantic Relevance: Counterfactual Risk Minimization for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

@inproceedings{liu-2026-beyond, author = {Peiyang Liu and Zhongxiang Sun and Peiyang Liu and Zhongxiang Sun and Qiang Yan and Xiao Zhang and Ziqiang Cui and Di Liang and Jun Xu and Xi Wang and Yang Song and Xi Wang and Yang Song and Kun Gai and Wei Ye and Kun Gai and Wei Ye}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Beyond Semantic Relevance: Counterfactual Risk Minimization for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1232--1243}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809631}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809631} }