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3 open-access journal articles on knowledge conflict, published in 2026 in Life of Research. Every record is free to read and download, with a permanent link and a ready-made citation.
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A retrieval-augmented system that answers only when its retrieved context suffices needs a predicate that says when it does. Three incompatible predicates are in circulation under the word "sufficient", and results obtained under different ones are routinely compared as though they measured one…
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The literature on how language models behave when retrieved context contradicts parametric memory contains a flat contradiction, and neither of its two surveys resolves it. One body of results reports over-reliance on memorised information; another reports that models are highly receptive to…
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An agent with persistent memory writes its own records, and two of them can disagree. Across the published systems examined here the resolution runs in one direction: the newer record supersedes the older. This paper argues that the direction is not wrong so much as underdetermined, and that the…