arXiv AI

Inference-Time Conformal Reasoning with Valid Factuality Control for Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 08831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly perform multi-step reasoning, where intermediate claims form implicit directed acyclic graphs whose node correctness is structurally conditioned on their ancestors.

arXiv AI
Sep 7

GUT: Quantifying and Optimizing the Reasoning Uncertainty of LLMs via Graph Complexity

The paper introduces GUT, a method that uses directed acyclic graphs to represent all possible reasoning branches of Large Language Models (LLMs). It comprises two modules: GUT-Q, which quantifies reasoning uncertainty by approximating graph complexity, and GUT-O, which reduces uncertainty through reinforcement learning that rewards lower uncertainty. Experiments on four LLMs across five datasets demonstrate GUT’s effectiveness in measuring and mitigating reasoning uncertainty.

By Shuang Liang, Xin-Yu Hu, Xiang-Jun Ou, Shao-Qun Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Grounding Multi-Hop Reasoning in Structural Causal Models via Group Relative Policy Optimization

arXiv:2605. 01482v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Hop Fact Verification requires complex reasoning across disparate evidence, posing significant challenges for Large Language Models , which may suffer from hallucinations and fractured logical chains.

By Yunhan Bu, Quan Zhang, Huaping Zhang, Guotong Geng, Chunxiao Gao, Askar Hamdulla, Juan Wang, Qiuchi Li, Baohua Zhang, Shuai Lei, Yunbo Cao, Zhunchen Luo
arXiv AI
Jun 16

VeriGraph: Towards Verifiable Data-Analytic Agents

arXiv:2606. 16603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes their reasoning difficult to audit.

By Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao, Yuyang Hu, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv AI
Aug 11

TempoBench: Reasoning Execution Without Causal Attribution Is Just Simulation

arXiv:2510. 27544v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current training paradigms, optimized for long-horizon reasoning trace execution, have made Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at pattern matching and forward simulation of reasoning, but underperform at counterfactual causal understanding and reasoning.

By Nikolaus Holzer, William Fishell, Baishakhi Ray, Mark Santolucito