Trust No One, Adjudicate Everything: When RAG Sources Disagree
TL;DR for operators A retrieval system does not become trustworthy merely because it has documents. It becomes a system with several possible ways to be confidently wrong. MACR treats disagreement as an adjudication problem. It estimates whether the model appears to know the answer, turns that internal position into inspectable text—or retrieves an external substitute when confidence is low—then asks specialized agents to identify contradictions and apply validated resolution rules. ...