Preprint
Jul 2026
Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency
This position paper observes that a wide variety of techniques designed to improve specific aspects of LM behavior-targeting properties as diverse as adversarial robustness and factual coherence-can be understood as special cases of a common "consistency optimization" procedure and addressed with a standard set of optimization tools.
Itamar Hagay Pres, Belinda Z. Li, L. Ruis et al.
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