Enhancing Assessment of Self-Consistency in LLM Explanations using Perturbation Strength

arXiv:2609.30849 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Consistency — 51× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 49× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
• A Survey on Data Contamination for Large Language Models
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Mistral 7B
• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• Noiser: Bounded Input Perturbations for Attributing Large Language Models
• MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers
• On the Predictive Power of Neural Language Models for Human Real-Time Comprehension Behavior

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