Revealed Rationality: Label-Free Evaluation and Regularization from Representation Theorems

arXiv:2608.05015 · econ.TH, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Isaiah Andrews

econ.TH, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Comments: 20 pages

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Axioms — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Critical Cost Efficiency Index — 2× in this paper
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference — 2× in this paper
• Self-consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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• Scaling Open-Ended Reasoning to Predict the Future
• Ever since Ellsberg
• On the meaning of the Critical Cost Efficiency Index
• Logical Induction
• From Drift to Coherence: Stabilizing Beliefs in LLMs
• Advancing Event Forecasting through Massive Training of Large Language Models: Challenges, Solutions, and Broader Impacts
• The Moral Mind(s) of Large Language Models
• Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?
• Economic Rationality under Specialization: Evidence of Decision Bias in AI Agents
• When Agents Say One Thing and Do Another: Validating Elicited Beliefs from LLMs
• Can Revealed Preferences Clarify LLM Alignment and Steering?

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