From Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM Agents
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arXiv:2608.16002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language model (LLM) agents in complex interactive environments. Existing UQ methods largely rely on local signals, such as token probabilities, predictive entropy, or per-step confidence, and therefore overlook the long-range dependencies through which errors accumulate across an execution trajectory. As a result, they may fail to identify agent failures whose causes originate several reasoning or interaction steps before the final answer. We propose RUPA (Relational Unc
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.16002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language model (LLM) agents in complex interactive environments.
- Existing UQ methods largely rely on local signals, such as token probabilities, predictive entropy, or per-step confidence, and therefore overlook the long-range dependencies through which errors accumulate across an execution trajectory.
- As a result, they may fail to identify agent failures whose causes originate several reasoning or interaction steps before the final answer.
Why it matters
This model development creates a new option for users and a new testing obligation for developers. A fixed evaluation set comparing quality, cost and failure behavior is more useful than launch claims.
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