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RADAR: Defending RAG Dynamically against Retrieval Corruption

Ziyuan Chen Yueming Lyu Yi Liu Weixiang Han Jing Dong Caifeng Shan Tieniu Tan
Published
May 21, 2026
Updated
May 21, 2026

Abstract

While RAG systems are increasingly deployed in dynamic web search, temporal volatility amplifies their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Existing static-oriented defenses struggle to handle evolving threats and incur prohibitive storage costs in dynamic settings. We propose RADAR, a framework that models reliable context selection as a graph-based energy minimization problem, solved exactly via Max-Flow Min-Cut. By incorporating a Bayesian memory node, RADAR recursively updates a belief state instead of archiving raw historical documents, effectively balancing stability against attacks with adaptability to genuine knowledge shifts. Experiments on a novel dynamic dataset show that RADAR achieves superior robustness and response quality with minimal storage overhead compared to the baselines.

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