arXiv:2607. 12273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Code Large Language Models (LLMs) become central to modern software engineering, their inherent stochasticity poses significant real-world risks, where even minor errors can lead to severe functional, security, or safety consequences.
By Xiaoning Ren, Yinxing Xue, Lei Ma, Yuheng Huang
As Code Large Language Models (LLMs) become central to modern software engineering, their inherent stochasticity poses significant real-world risks, where even minor errors can lead to severe functional, security, or safety consequences. Reliable automation, therefore, demands the ability to distinguish between confident, well-supported predictions and stochastic guessing.
arXiv:2607. 16868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce confidently stated yet unreliable outputs, posing critical challenges for deployment in safety-sensitive applications.
By Yanni Dong, Minghua Liu, Meiling Zhu, Xiaowei Huang, Lijun Zhang
The paper introduces Functional Entropy, a new uncertainty quantification technique for assessing the functional correctness of code generated by large language models. It evaluates token‑probability and sampling‑based methods across three programming languages and five LLMs, finding that token‑probability approaches generalize well while NLI‑based sampling fails due to semantic clustering. Functional equivalence methods, which replace NLI with an LLM‑based functional assessment, achieve superior AUROC and calibration in most model‑benchmark combinations.
By Dylan Bouchard, Mohit Singh Chauhan, Zeya Ahmad, Ho-Kyeong Ra
The paper introduces Trustworthy RAG, an evaluation agent designed to detect misinformation and knowledge poisoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems. It combines natural language inference verification, a five-signal poison detector, and a weighted Trust Index to assess the reliability of retrieved content. Experiments on multiple LLMs show high accuracy and precision, with the agent effectively blocking unsafe advice in a secure-coding assistant scenario.
By Balkrishna Giri, Md Toufique Hasan, Jussi Rasku, Muhammad Waseem, Pekka Abrahamsson
arXiv:2608. 14707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems become increasingly capable, coordinating agents under uncertainty becomes a fundamental challenge.
By John Knowlton, Aritra Guha, Risto Miikkulainen
arXiv:2511. 16275v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) in safety-critical scenarios, as it enables them to abstain from responding when uncertain, thereby avoiding hallucinations, i.
By Xingtao Zhao, Hao Peng, Dingli Su, Xianghua Zeng, Chunyang Liu, Jinzhi Liao, Philip S. Yu
The paper introduces RUPA, a trajectory‑level uncertainty quantification framework for large language model agents. RUPA models an agent’s execution as a directed graph of reasoning states, tool interactions, and environment feedback, then propagates uncertainty across this graph to capture long‑range dependencies. Experiments on benchmarks such as τ‑2, Terminal‑Bench‑2, and GAIA show that RUPA outperforms existing methods, enabling earlier failure detection and more reliable agent execution.
By Zhengzhao Ma. Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
arXiv:2606. 14948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have substantially improved software engineering yet real-world development requires architectural understanding.
By Kirill Vasilevski (Justina), Ximing Dong (Justina), Benjamin Rombaut (Justina), Ruochen Deng (Justina), Jiahuei Lin (Justina), Arthur Leung, Dayi Lin, Boyuan Chen, Shaowei Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan
arXiv:2608. 14659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models for code generation often produce incorrect solutions without reliable indicators of failure.
By Pranav Rakasi, Maanas Lalwani, Arnav Srivastava, Arya Palanivel, Tinuade Adeleke, Ruizhe Li, Sean Wu
arXiv:2607. 20499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models generate plausible backend code, but a single-pass paradigm provides no guarantee of correctness or runtime reliability.
By Sai Deekshith Lekkala, Jothi Prabha Appadurai, Rohith Reddy Bellibatlu, Manpreet Singh
arXiv:2604. 02923v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated advanced capabilities but often suffer from factual inaccuracies (hallucinations) and systematic biases.
By Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng, Yufang Li, Zhijun Wang, Ran Wang