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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Self-Improvement as Coherence Optimization: A Theoretical Account

Tianyi Qiu, Ahmed Hani Ismail, Zhonghao He +1

Can language models improve their accuracy without external supervision? Methods such as debate, bootstrap, and internal coherence maximization achieve this surprising feat, even m…

cs.CL2025

Gaming the Answer Matcher: Examining the Impact of Text Manipulation on Automated Judgment

Manas Khatore, Sumana Sridharan, Kevork Sulahian +2

Automated answer matching, which leverages LLMs to evaluate free-text responses by comparing them to a reference answer, shows substantial promise as a scalable and aligned alterna…

cs.AI2025

Emergent Persuasion: Will LLMs Persuade Without Being Prompted?

Vincent Chang, Thee Ho, Sunishchal Dev +4

With the wide-scale adoption of conversational AI systems, AI are now able to exert unprecedented influence on human opinion and beliefs. Recent work has shown that many Large Lang…

cs.CL2025

Mitigating Self-Preference by Authorship Obfuscation

Taslim Mahbub, Shi Feng

Language models (LMs) judges are widely used to evaluate the quality of LM outputs. Despite many advantages, LM judges display concerning biases that can impair their integrity in…

cs.CL2025

DeepDive: Advancing Deep Search Agents with Knowledge Graphs and Multi-Turn RL

Rui Lu, Zhenyu Hou, Zihan Wang +6

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with browsing tools substantially improves their potential as deep search agents to solve complex, real-world tasks. Yet, open LLMs still pe…

cs.CL2025

AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims

Salman Rahman, Sheriff Issaka, Ashima Suvarna +11

As AI grows more powerful, it will increasingly shape how we understand the world. But with this influence comes the risk of amplifying misinformation and deepening social divides-…