@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-beyond-explicit,
    title = "Beyond Explicit Refusals: Soft-Failure Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation",
    author = "Zhang, Wentao  and
      Zhuang, Yan  and
      Zheng, ZhuHang  and
      Zhang, Mingfei  and
      Deng, Jiawen  and
      Ren, Fuji",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1397/",
    pages = "30281--30302",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}