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Sat 3 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30 at 213 - Paper Presentation 1 Chair(s): Jinhan Kim

Large Language Models are increasingly used to build agents to perform more complex tasks. As LLMs perform more complicated reasoning through longer interactions, self-consistency, i.e., the idea that the answer obtained from sampling and marginalising a number of multiple independent inferences is more likely to be correct, has received much attention as a simple validation technique. This paper aims to empirically verify this intuitive hypothesis by predicting the correctness of answers obtained using self-consistency from properties of the samples of reasoning paths. We introduce Lachesis, a predictive model for self-consistency based LLM inferences, and empirically evaluate it using AutoFL, a recently proposed LLM-based fault localisation technique, as the target technique that uses self-consistency. Lachesis converts collected reasoning paths from AutoFL using specifically designed reasoning path representations, and trains LSTM and GCN models to predict whether a given set of reasoning paths would result in a correct answer. The results suggest that Lachesis can predict the correctness of answers with a precision of up to 0.8245, highlighting the possibility of training a predictive model that can allow early termination of inferences that are not likely to be successful.

Sat 3 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Paper Presentation 1DeepTest at 213
Chair(s): Jinhan Kim Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
11:00
30m
Talk
Lachesis: Predicting LLM Inference Accuracy using Structural Properties of Reasoning Paths
DeepTest
Naryeong Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Sungmin Kang KAIST, Gabin An KAIST, Shin Yoo KAIST
Pre-print
11:30
30m
Talk
Improving the Reliability of Failure Prediction Models through Concept Drift Monitoring
DeepTest
Lorena Poenaru-Olaru TU Delft, Luís Cruz TU Delft, Jan S. Rellermeyer Leibniz University Hannover, Arie van Deursen TU Delft
12:00
30m
Talk
On the Effectiveness of LLMs for Manual Test Verifications
DeepTest
Myron David Peixoto Federal University of Alagoas, Davy Baía Federal University of Alagoas, Nathalia Nascimento Pennsylvania State University, Paulo Alencar University of Waterloo, Baldoino Fonseca Federal University of Alagoas, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
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