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Language models now answer questions alongside other claims: a note in the system prompt, a message from another agent, their own earlier answer. We ask what it takes to talk a model out of an answer...
The study investigates the role of rationales in role‑specialized question‑answering pipelines by fixing evidence and candidate answers while varying only the rationale sent from a reasoner to a verifier. Experiments on 400 examples from MuSiQue, HotpotQA, and 2WikiMultiHopQA show that faithful rationales add almost no answer accuracy, whereas corrupted rationales significantly alter support judgments, especially under explicit rationale‑checking prompts. Human audits reveal that many corrupted rationales lead to mistrust or rejection, highlighting the importance of evaluating rationale sharing as a verification mechanism rather than merely a means to improve accuracy.
arXiv:2610.35694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational QA systems should fix errors when users push back and signal which answers to trust. We split each follow-up into its speech act (re-ask...
arXiv:2608. 14375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reasoning systems often use agreement, confidence, or automated scores to decide which messages should shape a final answer.
arXiv:2609.37616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models tend to agree with whatever a user asserts, and post-training increasingly targets this sycophancy so that models evaluate claims on th...
The paper introduces TalkMesh, a decentralized network of small language model agents that learn to communicate effectively during inference. Each agent proposes an answer, scores it with a confidence head, and the most confident agent broadcasts a hint; lower‑confidence agents revise their proposals if a new suggestion scores higher. This gossip‑based consensus, trained via group relative policy optimization, enables a mesh of three agents to match the accuracy of majority voting over 32 samples, and scales to larger meshes to significantly boost performance on benchmarks like GSM8K and MATH-500.