Masking or Mitigating? Deconstructing the Impact of Query Rewriting on Retriever Biases in RAG

Agam Goyal, Koyel Mukherjee 0001, Apoorv Saxena, Anirudh Phukan, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Hari Sundaram. Masking or Mitigating? Deconstructing the Impact of Query Rewriting on Retriever Biases in RAG. In Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang 0001, David Jurgens, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026. pages 8517-8530, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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Agam Goyal

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Koyel Mukherjee 0001

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Apoorv Saxena

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