zkDaily - 2026-04-04

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04.04

2026

VeriRAG: Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Paper

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/637

Chenqi Lin RAG

Lin et al. proposed VeriRAG framework in their paper, using ZKP for efficient integrity guarantees in RAG systems, supporting ANNS and optimizing verification overhead, achieving 96s prover time and 3s verifier time on 37GB dataset.

Notes

RAG systems suffer from hallucination, allowing malicious providers to bypass retrieval or claim false data quality
VeriRAG uses ZKP for integrity guarantees while preserving dataset privacy
Supports Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search to avoid exhaustive searches
Proposes innovative protocol bypassing complex verification of sorting processes
Uses joint optimization with vector lookup and chunk-merging strategies to reduce verification overhead
Experimental results show scalability to 37GB dataset with 96s prover time and 3s verifier time

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04.04

2026

Why does VeriRAG support ANNS instead of exhaustive search?

Real-world RAG systems usually rely on Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) for speed. VeriRAG supports this industrial workflow so the proof system can scale to realistic vector databases.

Why is top-k verification a difficult part?

Because directly proving the full sorting process is expensive. VeriRAG introduces a protocol that avoids proving the entire sort and instead verifies key correctness conditions, greatly reducing prover overhead.

What is the core performance optimization in VeriRAG?

The core lies in joint optimization through vector lookup and chunk merging. The former reduces proof cost for vector access, while the latter shrinks constraint size, similar in spirit to batch evaluation by covering more data with fewer proof steps.

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