Inference Cost Attacks for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models.

@inproceedings{liu-2026-inference, author = {Chengliang Liu and Liangbo Ning and Yujuan Ding and Wenqi Fan}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Inference Cost Attacks for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {7564--7575}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792683}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792683} }