Consistency Without Alignment: Item-Sensitive Language Models Indistinguishable From Random

arXiv:2609.00576 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• Consistency — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Pragmatics — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Positional Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Codenames as a Benchmark for Large Language Models
• Modeling Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Inference with Codenames Duet

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