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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 137/10

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Rethinking Prospect Theory for LLMs: Revealing the Instability of Decision-Making under Epistemic Uncertainty

Researchers challenge the applicability of Prospect Theory to Large Language Models, finding that PT parameters are unstable when models encounter epistemic uncertainty markers like "likely" or "probably." The study warns against deploying PT-based frameworks in real-world applications where linguistic ambiguity is common, raising critical questions about LLM decision-making reliability.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 6h ago6/10

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Prospect-Theory Behavior from Bellman Optimality in MDPs with Catastrophic States

Researchers demonstrate that optimal control in Markov decision processes with catastrophic failure states naturally produces prospect-theory-like behaviors—including S-shaped value functions and loss aversion—without requiring utility curvature or probability weighting. The mechanism emerges purely from the mathematical structure of Bellman optimality when agents face absorbing failure states, with results validated across 495 configurations and multiple learning paradigms.