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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Multi-agent AI systems outperform human teams in creativity

Tiancheng Hu, Yixuan Jiang, Haotian Li +5

Although artificial intelligence (AI) now matches or exceeds human performance across numerous cognitive tasks, creativity remains a highly contested frontier. As AI systems based…

cs.CL2026

Confidence Estimation for LLMs in Multi-turn Interactions

Caiqi Zhang, Ruihan Yang, Xiaochen Zhu +5

While confidence estimation is a promising direction for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), current research overwhelmingly focuses on single-turn settings.…

cs.CL2026

Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective

Beiduo Chen, Tiancheng Hu, Caiqi Zhang +3

Reasoning-tuned LLMs utilizing long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) excel at single-answer tasks, yet their ability to model Human Label Variation--which requires capturing probabilistic am…

cs.CL2026

Value of Information: A Framework for Human-Agent Communication

Yijiang River Dong, Tiancheng Hu, Zheng Hui +4

Large Language Model (LLM) agents deployed for real-world tasks face a fundamental dilemma: user requests are underspecified, yet agents must decide whether to act on incomplete in…

cs.CL2026

Steer Model beyond Assistant: Controlling System Prompt Strength via Contrastive Decoding

Yijiang River Dong, Tiancheng Hu, Zheng Hui +1

Large language models excel at complex instructions yet struggle to deviate from their helpful assistant persona, as post-training instills strong priors that resist conflicting in…

cs.CL2025

Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations for Better Multilingual Calibration in Large Language Models

Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu +4

Confidence calibration, the alignment of a model's predicted confidence with its actual accuracy, is crucial for the reliable deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, t…