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From Answers to Interpretations: Rethinking Ambiguity-Induced Aleatoric Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs
A new arXiv preprint proposes a clarification-only method to estimate ambiguity-induced aleatoric uncertainty in LLMs—bypassing answer generation entirely—to improve accuracy, reduce cost, and decouple aleatoric from epistemic uncertainty.
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arXiv Artificial Intelligence
Sep 7, 2026
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Position: Natural Language Should Not Fully Replace Formal Languages
A position paper argues that natural language cannot fully replace formal languages for high-precision tasks because natural language is inherently underspecified, and introduces a formal 'task specificity' framework to show when formal specification becomes more efficient than natural language prompting.
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arXiv Computation and Language
Jul 24, 2026