@article{cansmalllanguagemodelsusewhattheyretriev,
  title = {Can Small Language Models Use What They Retrieve? An Empirical Study of Retrieval Utilization Across Model Scale},
  author = {Sanchit Pandey},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.11513},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11513},
}