Neeraj Kumar Singh Beshane

EmbedGuard: Cross-Layer Detection and Provenance Attestation for Adversarial Embedding Attacks in RAG Systems

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Abstract Embedding-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are critical infrastructure for production AI applications, yet remain vulnerable to embedding space poisoning attacks that achieve disproportionate success with minimal payloads (less than 1% corpus contamination achieving greater …