From RAGs to rich parameters: Probing how language models utilize external knowledge over parametric information for factual queries.

@inproceedings{wadhwa-2026-rags, author = {Hitesh Wadhwa and Rahul Seetharaman and Somyaa Aggarwal and Reshmi Ghosh and Samyadeep Basu and Soundararajan Srinivasan and Wenlong Zhao and Shreyas Chaudhari and Ehsan Aghazedeh}, editor = {Edoardo Serra and Francesca Spezzano and Francesco Gullo}, title = {{From RAGs to rich parameters: Probing how language models utilize external knowledge over parametric information for factual queries}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM Companion 2026, Boise Centre, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026}}, pages = {132--139}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3779211.3793209}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3779211.3793209} }