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TellTail identifies the deployed embedding model among 53 retrievers from queries alone in black-box systems

The work introduces TellTail, a query-only fingerprinting attack that identifies the embedding model behind a black-box retrieval system: it perfectly identifies the deployed retriever from full rankings, achieves 94.3% success from unordered top-3 results, and 92.5% from language-model-generated answers alone, and still identifies 44 of 53 retrievers in an end-to-end OpenWebUI deployment.