Lost with a Map: Conversational State and Behavioral Reliability in Language Models

arXiv:2609.33883 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Accuracy — 66× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Schema-Guided Dialogue — 4× in this paper
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 3× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Linear probe — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Activation Addition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frozen model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Positioning of State-Action Controller — 1× in this paper
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Text-to-SQL — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs
• Selective State-Space Adaptation and Retrieval for Language Model Reasoning
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• A retrieval conditioned rebinding circuit for dynamic entity tracking in large language models
• 2 OLMo 2 Furious
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Towards Scalable Multi-domain Conversational Agents: The Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset
• LLMs Get Lost in Evolving User Intent
• Robust Text-to-SQL Generation with Execution-Guided Decoding

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