AAAI 2026

January 24, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the quality of question answering by integrating external knowledge with internal knowledge. A robust RAG system needs to precisely regulate the dependence of the response on the two types of knowledge. The recently proposed context-aware contrastive decoding (CCD) method attempts to achieve this goal by adjusting the knowledge reference weights by comparing the output distribution differences of LLMS when they rely on different knowledge sources. However, these methods are based on probabilistic knowledge reference adjustment strategies (such as the highest probability or entropy), only focus on the relative confidence of the output responses at each decoding step, without considering the absolute confidence of the responses, which may lead to misjudgment of the external knowledge and internal knowledge reference degree in the decoding process. To this end, we propose a novel decoding method, Evidence-guided Contrastive Decoding (ECD), which conducts evidence modeling by constructing the Dirichlet distribution and regards logits as evidence vectors, so as to regulate the reference degree of internal and external knowledge more accurately, and finally improve the quality of generated responses. Extensive evaluations across four public benchmark datasets on three mainstream LLMs have demonstrated the effectiveness and advantages of ECD.

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