arXiv:2606.11265cs.CRcs.AI2026-06

现有数据投毒攻击在真实检索流程中失效,新方法提升攻击成功率和鲁棒性。

When Poison Fails After Retrieval: Revisiting Corpus Poisoning under Chunking and Reranking Pipelines

论文配图:When Poison Fails After Retrieval: Revisiting Corpus Poisoning under Chunking and Reranking Pipelines
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  • 针对分块与重排序流程设计新攻击框架,兼顾局部完整性和一致性。
  • 在多个基准上测试,新方法攻击成功率显著高于旧方法,且对分块大小不敏感。
  • 揭示当前安全评估的现实差距,适合研究RAG系统安全性的学者参考。

检索增强生成(RAG)系统易受数据投毒攻击,攻击者通过注入恶意知识操纵下游模型输出。现有研究多在简化检索设置下评估,忽略了实际RAG流程中包含文档分块、密集检索、重排序和基于事实的生成等多阶段特性。本文重新审视真实多阶段检索流程下的数据投毒问题,发现许多现有攻击在重排序后效果大幅下降,尽管其在检索阶段相关性很高。我们识别出检索粒度不匹配是主要原因:文档级攻击信号在分块过程中被碎片化,而重排序器更青睐局部连贯且包含答案的段落,而非全局语义相似性。基于此,提出分块感知且重排序一致的投毒框架(CRCP),在优化过程中显式建模分块转换,生成在不同分块配置下仍有效的自洽攻击段落。在多个标准RAG基准上,使用多种检索器和重排序器的实验表明,现有方法对分块大小和重排序策略高度敏感,而CRCP在真实检索流程中实现更高攻击成功率和更强鲁棒性。研究结果揭示了当前RAG安全评估的重要现实差距,表明现代RAG系统的投毒问题应作为多阶段检索一致性问题来研究,而非仅限于检索阶段。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to corpus poisoning attacks that manipulate downstream model outputs through malicious knowledge injection. Existing studies mainly evaluate poisoning under simplified retrieval settings, overlooking practical RAG pipelines involving document chunking, dense retrieval, reranking, and grounded generation. In this paper, we revisit corpus poisoning under realistic multi-stage retrieval pipelines and show that many existing attacks substantially degrade after reranking despite achieving high retrieval-stage relevance. We identify retrieval granularity mismatch as a key reason for this failure: document-level adversarial signals are often fragmented during chunking, while rerankers favor locally coherent and answer-bearing passages rather than globally optimized semantic similarity. Based on this observation, we propose Chunk-aware and Rerank-Consistent Poisoning (CRCP), a poisoning framework that jointly optimizes retrieval relevance, reranker consistency, and chunk-boundary robustness. CRCP explicitly models chunking transformations during optimization to generate locally self-contained adversarial passages that remain effective under varying chunking configurations. Experiments on standard RAG benchmarks with multiple retrievers and rerankers show that existing poisoning methods are highly sensitive to chunk size and reranking strategies, whereas CRCP achieves substantially higher attack success rates and stronger robustness across realistic retrieval pipelines. Our findings highlight an important realism gap in current RAG security evaluation and suggest that poisoning in modern RAG systems should be studied as a multi-stage retrieval consistency problem rather than a retrieval-only problem.

RAG安全数据投毒检索增强攻击鲁棒性

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