Belief Updating in LLMs

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  1. Do LLMs Change Their Minds Like Humans? Diagnosing Human--LLM Divergence in Single-Turn Persuasion Judgments

    Aug 30, 2026Lin Chen, Yitong Chen, Yong LiLLM EvaluationBelief Updating in LLMs

    1Network Science Institute, Northeastern University · Department of Physics, Northeastern University · Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University

  2. Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

    Aug 12, 2026Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Emre Can Acikgoz, Gokhan Tur +1Deception in Language ModelsAdversarial Attacks on LLMs

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  3. LatticeMind: A Conflict-Aware Memory Primitive for Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 8, 2026Heng Zhou, Lian Zhang, Yutao Fan +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsKnowledge Conflicts in Language Models

    University of Science and Technology of China · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Shanghai AI Laboratory +2

  4. Query Timing Produces Opposite Positional Biases Between LLMs and Humans

    Aug 1, 2026Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Thomas L. GriffithsLanguage Model Bias EvaluationBelief Updating in LLMs

    Princeton University

  5. LLMs struggle to simulate human belief updates in controlled environments

    Jul 30, 2026Sebastian Pohl, Harsh Mehta, Pranav Mambayil +4Human Behavior SimulationLLM Reliability

    IT:U, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Altenberger Straße 66c, 4040 Linz, Austria

  6. Evaluating Communicative Belief Updates in Large Language Models via Implicature Recognition and Cancellation

    Jul 27, 2026Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano, Verna Dankers, Marius Mosbach +1LLM EvaluationPragmatic Reasoning in Language Models

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute & McGill University · Canada CIFAR AI Chair

  7. BayesBench: Evaluating LLM Belief Trajectories Under Multi-Turn Evidence Accumulation

    Jun 29, 2026Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Tal Lancewicki +7LLM EvaluationBayesian Inference

    Meta AI · Columbia University · Work done at Meta +2

  8. Evidence-Informed LLM Beliefs for Continual Scientific Discovery

    Jun 28, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Reece Adamson, Andrew McCallum +3Scientific Hypothesis GenerationBelief Updating in LLMs

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · Allen Institute for AI

  9. Confident but Conflicted: Internal Uncertainty and Cognitive Dissonance Resolution in LLMs

    Jun 21, 2026Weihong Qi, Kristina LermanKnowledge Conflicts in Language ModelsBelief Updating in LLMs

    Indiana University Bloomington

  10. From Drift to Coherence: Stabilizing Beliefs in LLMs

    Jun 16, 2026SongEun Kim, Seungyoo Lee, Edwin Fong +2LLM Fine-TuningBayesian Inference

    Department of Statistics, Seoul National University · Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology · The University of Hong Kong +1

  11. Using Cognitive Models to Improve Language Model Simulation of Human Persuasion Games

    Jun 16, 2026Zirui Cheng, Zeyu Shen, Thomas L. Griffiths +1RL for Language ModelsCognitive Modeling

    1Princeton University

  12. When Should Models Change Their Minds? Contextual Belief Management in Large Language Models

    May 28, 2026Haoming Xu, Weihong Xu, Zongrui Li +6Representation SteeringBelief Updating in LLMs

    ♠Zhejiang University · ♣HomologyAI

  13. Stories in Space: In-Context Learning Trajectories in Conceptual Belief Space

    May 12, 2026Eric Bigelow, Raphaël Sarfati, Daniel Wurgaft +5LLM InterpretabilityIn-Context Learning

  14. LLMs are not (consistently) Bayesian: Quantifying internal (in)consistencies of LLMs' probabilistic beliefs

    May 7, 2026Chacha Chen, Matthew Jörke, Adam Goliński +4Belief RevisionLLM Auditing

    1Apple · 2Stanford University · †Work done while an intern at Apple. +1

  15. Hypothesis generation and updating in large language models

    May 7, 2026Hua-Dong XiongLogical ReasoningBayesian Inference

    School of Psychological and Brain Sciences Georgia Tech

  16. Vulnerability of LLMs' Stated Beliefs? LLMs Belief Resistance Check Through Strategic Persuasive Conversation Interventions

    Jan 20, 2026Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun AnLLM EvaluationFine-Tuning

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States