FlowEdit: Information-Theoretic Control of LLM Reasoning Flows for Ill-posed Problems Involving Conflicts

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.20500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform strongly on well-specified reasoning tasks with a feasible answer. However, problems encountered in the open world can become ill-posed due to inconsistent conditions, conflicting statements, or mutually incompatible requirements, admitting no valid responses. We argue that reasoning of such ill-posed problems involving conflicts require novel LLM capabilities to make hidden conflicts explicit, maintain competing hypotheses via multiple reasoning branches, and generate alternative responses in a single pass, all of which are challenging due to the limitation of the next-token prediction mechanism in LLMs. To this end, we propose FlowEdit, a novel framework that leverages information-theoretic principles to