Feedback-Assisted Trust Propagation over Document Relation Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00543v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:30:15 GMT
• Title: Feedback-Assisted Trust Propagation over Document Relation Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Abstract summary: We propose TrustPropRAG to propagate reliability signals beyond directly compared document pairs.<n>TrustPropRAG anchors this propagation with a limited set of human feedback on document reliability.<n>We show that TrustPropRAG improves both retrieval quality and exact match over baselines, and remains robust under sparse and noisy feedback.
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• Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems rely on external corpora that may contain outdated, contradictory, noisy, or unreliable documents, introducing reliability risks. Prior work has leveraged document relations to improve the answer reliability of RAG. To propagate reliability signals beyond directly compared document pairs, we propose TrustPropRAG, which structures document relations as a graph and estimates document reliability through multi-hop propagation across the graph. TrustPropRAG anchors this propagation with a limited set of human feedback on document reliability, extending these costly-to-collect feedback-based reliability signals across the whole corpus. Specifically, based on the constructed document relation graph, TrustPropRAG estimates a trust score for each document by formulating and solving an optimization problem that jointly captures pairwise document relations and user feedback. These scores are then used to improve the selection of reliable documents and support trust-aware answer generation. Evaluation results show that TrustPropRAG improves both retrieval quality and exact match over baselines, and remains robust under sparse and noisy feedback.

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