3 papers
cs.CL2026
CoRA: Confidence-Rationale Alignment for Reliable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Juming Xiong, Weixin Liu, Kevin Guo +9
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can improve LLM performance, but high answer confidence may be misleading when the accompanying CoT rationale is plausible yet incomplete or poorly…
cs.CL2026
When Evidence is Sparse: Weakly Supervised Early Failure Alerting in Dialogs and LLM-Agent Trajectories
Avinash Baidya, Xinran Liang, Ruocheng Guo +2
Early failure alerting requires deciding, while a dialog or agent trajectory is still unfolding, whether to flag it as likely to fail. This is challenging because supervision is ty…
cs.CL2025
The Behavior Gap: Evaluating Zero-shot LLM Agents in Complex Task-Oriented Dialogs
Avinash Baidya, Kamalika Das, Xiang Gao
Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have significantly impacted Task-Oriented Dialog Systems (TODS) but continue to face notable performance challenges, especially in zero-shot…