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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 27/10

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Diagnosing LLM Arbitration Behavior over Pre-evidence Epistemic States in RAG-based Fact-Checking

Researchers introduce PAVE, a diagnostic framework for evaluating how large language models arbitrate between their parametric knowledge and retrieved evidence in RAG-based fact-checking systems. Testing across seven LLMs reveals inconsistent and model-dependent behavior when prior knowledge conflicts with retrieved context, prompting the development of a lightweight test-time correction method to improve factual reliability.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 116/10

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State Representation and Termination for Recursive Reasoning Systems

Researchers present a formal framework for recursive reasoning systems that addresses two critical design challenges: how to represent evolving reasoning states and when to terminate iteration. The paper introduces an epistemic state graph representation and proposes the 'order-gap' metric as a stopping criterion, with theoretical guarantees for when this criterion provides meaningful guidance.