@HuggingPapers: When should LLMs update, preserve, or ignore information? Contextual Belief Management is what long-horizon reasoning w…
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Introduces BeliefTrack, a method for contextual belief management in LLMs, reducing reasoning failures by over 70%.
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When should LLMs update, preserve, or ignore information?
Contextual Belief Management is what long-horizon reasoning was missing. We introduce BeliefTrack—and show that optimizing belief states cuts reasoning failures by over 70%. https://t.co/7gwuNLNd1t
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