arXiv:2605.25831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) define a distribution over text, which can be viewed as a probabilistic representation of uncertainty: sampling...
By Joris Baan, Wilker Aziz, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fern\'andez
The paper presents a tri‑agent framework for evaluating large language models’ question‑clarification abilities. It involves a Question Clarifying Agent that identifies ambiguities and asks follow‑up questions, a Respondent Agent that simulates human replies, and an Evaluator Agent that judges the dialogue using metrics such as ambiguity handling, question quality, dialogue efficiency, language appropriateness, and intent alignment. The authors illustrate the approach with synthetic supply‑chain data and discuss validating the evaluator against human judgments.
By Yikai Zhao, Saurabh Pandey, Pradeep Kumar Misra
The paper introduces Retrieval-Augmented Decoding (RAD), a decoding-time method that improves the truthfulness of large language models without retraining. RAD uses a small reference set of up to ten annotated examples to build a grounding space of context embeddings and next-token logits, which it retrieves and aggregates during inference to shape the model’s output. Experiments on four open-ended generation benchmarks and four different LLMs show that RAD consistently outperforms strong baselines and generalizes well across tasks.
By Manh Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Hung Le
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive systems where understanding user intent precisely is paramount. A key capability for such systems is effective question clarificat...
arXiv:2609.24290v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs faced with underspecified queries often commit to a single interpretation rather than ask for clarification, producing confident...
By Yunxiang Li, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng
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