Preference Reasoning under Indeterminacy in Large Language Models
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arXiv:2608.18631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models evolve into decision-making agents, the ability to reason over preferences becomes fundamental to alignment, coordination, and collective intelligence. Yet, unlike standard benchmarks, real-world preference reasoning is inherently indeterminate: information may be incomplete, and valid solutions may not exist. We argue that indeterminacy, rather than correctness alone, is a central challenge for AI reasoning. We formalize this challenge along two axes, (i) epistemic indeterminacy, arising from incomplete, partial, or expr
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.18631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models evolve into decision-making agents, the ability to reason over preferences becomes fundamental to alignment, coordination, and collective intelligence.
- Yet, unlike standard benchmarks, real-world preference reasoning is inherently indeterminate: information may be incomplete, and valid solutions may not exist.
- We argue that indeterminacy, rather than correctness alone, is a central challenge for AI reasoning.
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