@article{guaranteeingknowledgeintegrationwithjoin, title = {Guaranteeing Knowledge Integration with Joint Decoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation}, author = {Zhengyi Zhao and Shubo Zhang and Zezhong Wang and Yuxi Zhang and Huimin Wang and Yutian Zhao and Yefeng Zheng and Binyang Li and Kam-Fai Wong and Xian Wu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.08046}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08046}, }