Your reranking team wants to raise k from 10 to 50 cand...

The conflict between recall and security should not be treated as a binary choice. By calculating the actual exposure risk, you can maintain the performance benefits of a larger candidate pool (k=50) while mitigating the security risk through a defense layer. This involves running injection checks on all retrieved passages before they reach the generation phase, effectively neutralizing the threat regardless of the number of candidates retrieved.