Unanimity Without Persuasion: A Single Round of Debate Erases the Disagreement That Verification Needs

arXiv:2609.26145 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-10 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-10

Updated: 2026-08-10

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Terminology

Verification — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Verifier — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Arbiter — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Sycophancy — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Abstention — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — 1× in this paper
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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