arXiv:2606. 03135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents often operate under underspecified user instructions, where latent uncertainty over user intent leads to erroneous tool actions.
By Mengyi Deng, Zhiwei Li, Xin Li, Tingyu Zhu, Ying Zhao, Zhijiang Guo, Wei Wang
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled sophisticated reasoning and content generation, yet their inherent stochasticity poses significant challenges for ensuring predictive credibility. While traditional uncertainty taxonomy paradigms, such as the dichotomy of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties, provide conceptual foundations, they often fail to capture the multi-component and multi-stage nature of LLM generation and struggle to evaluate the effectiveness of various Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) methods.
arXiv:2607. 24780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating frontier LLMs is challenging: static benchmarks suffer from contamination and saturation -- leaving users unable to distinguish top models and developers blind to specific failure modes -- while human preference is subjective.
By Xingyu Chen, Rui Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Liefeng Bo
arXiv:2510. 19698v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can propose rules in natural language, sidestepping the need for a predefined predicate space in traditional rule learning.
By Yang Yang, Hua XU, Zhangyi Hu, Yutao Yue
Using LLMs as judges has become standard practice for evaluating model outputs at scale. This is particularly common for subjective, open-ended tasks such as assessing helpfulness or alignment, where no single reference answer exists.
arXiv:2608. 17411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a widely used approach for post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning.
By Peizheng Guo, Jianqi Zhang, Xingyu Zhang, Yun Fan, Jiahuan Zhou, Changwen Zheng, Wenwen Qiang
arXiv:2606. 19714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges for open-ended generation, as large-scale human evaluation is often expensive and difficult to scale, yet their preferences remain imperfect proxies for human judgment.
By Zilong Zhang, Yi-Ting Hung, Weiyi He, Junxi Zhang, Lei Ding, Chi-Kuang Yeh
arXiv:2607. 22961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verbalized Machine Learning (VML) parameterizes a model as a natural-language prompt that an LLM evaluates as f(x; theta).
By Yan Zhang, Shikan Lian, Shibo Li
arXiv:2603. 24967v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding why a large language model (LLM) is uncertain about the response is important for their reliable deployment.
By Aditya Taparia, Ransalu Senanayake, Kowshik Thopalli, Vivek Narayanaswamy
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
arXiv:2606. 07515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the probabilistic reasoning capabilities of large language models through a controlled benchmarking study on discrete probability problems.
By Luca Avena, Gianmarco Bet, Bernardo Busoni
arXiv:2607. 21143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambiguous user requests make clarification a sequential decision problem for conversational LLM assistants: they must decide whether to ask, what to ask, when to stop, and when to answer.
By Minh Ngoc Ta, My Anh Tran Nguyen, Duong D. Nguyen, Yuxia Wang, Preslav Nakov