arXiv AI

On the evolution of the concept of probability as a mirror of the evolution of reason

arXiv:2606. 00102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the centuries, probability theory has grown from the calculus of games of chance into a central framework for reasoning under uncertainty.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 5

Why Pure Reasoning is Not Enough: Nature as the Source of Mathematical Innovation

We advance the hypothesis that human mathematical reasoning, constrained by both the undecidability and the computational intractability of even modest logical fragments, relies fundamentally on pattern matching from domains external to pure deduction. The most prolific reservoir of such patterns is the natural world, whose physical laws and biological systems have undergone billions of years of ``pre-computation'' and already exhibit surprisingly innovative solutions.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

Quantifying Aleatoric Uncertainty of In-Context Learning for Robust Measure of LLM Prediction Confidence

arXiv:2606. 19353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-Context Learning (ICL) allows LLMs to adapt to new tasks from a few demonstrations, but its reliability remains a concern: predictions are highly sensitive to both prompt design and the model's ability to understand the context, obscuring whether failures arise from data properties or model limitations.

By Jinseok Chung, Minkyoung Song, Hyunji Jung, Namhoon Lee
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Solution of the Hempel's statistical ambiguity problem and Causal AI

This paper addresses Carl Hempel's longstanding problem of statistical ambiguity in inductive-statistical inference, in which contradictory predictions are derived from statistical laws. To avoid such predictions, Carl Hempel proposed the Requirement of Maximal Specificity (RMS) for the statistical laws used in the inference.