The TellTail of Embeddings: Fingerprinting Retrievers in Black-Box Systems

arXiv:2610.04026 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-10-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Code: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

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Terminology

• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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