Towards FairRAG: Preventing Representational Harm in Retrieval-Augmented Generation by Enforcing Fair Exposure at Retrieval Time

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Main Author:	Tikoo, Riddhi
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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