@inproceedings{guo-etal-2026-auditing, title = "Auditing {RAG} Necessity: A Conformal Test for Source-Independent Answers", author = "Guo, Dongxin and Liu, Yang and Wu, Jikun and Yiu, SM", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1820/", pages = "41480--41503", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }