Prominence-Stratified Failure Modes in Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Recommendation: A 37,000-Run Audit

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Main Authors:	Jack, Will, Lehman, Noah, Maloney, Keller, Xu, Sarah
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Information Retrieval Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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