Preprint
Aug 2026
Mind the Hook: Source-Level Auditing of Privacy Defenses in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
An active-path audit is proposed: inventory source-level hooks over retrieval, retrieved content, and generation; map each metric to the leakage channel it observes; and validate generated-text effects with exact-match canaries.
Yanhan Li, Zhi-Chao Fan, Ze-Xin Zhuang
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