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תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.37588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Users of language-based assistive agents often make ambiguous requests. In response, an assistant can either directly act on its interpretation of the request --- risking misalignment with the user --- or ask a clarifying question. Which option is the most safe and helpful? A common approach is to ask questions that minimize uncertainty about the user's intent until a threshold is reached. However, this neglects the impact of uncertainty reduction on downstream performance, the costs of asking versus acting immediately, and the possibility that users may provide corrections without being asked. To navigate these trade-offs, we introduce Rational Enquiry via Value-of-Information Reasoning (REVOIR). REVOIR makes clarification decisions via in