Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for System And Method For Perturbation-Based Detection, Quantification, And Control Of Source-Preference Sycophancy In Retrieval- Augmented Generation

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641113544 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on September 22, 2026, for System And Method For Perturbation-Based Detection, Quantification, And Control Of Source-Preference Sycophancy In Retrieval- Augmented Generation.

Inventors include Vani Rajasekar; Nikhil Agarwal; and Sonone Aryan Swapnil.

The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system (100) and method for detecting, quantifying, and controlling source-preference sycophancy in a target large language model (102) operating within a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline (104). The syste...