RUPA targets trajectory-level uncertainty in LLM agents
The arXiv paper proposes graph-based uncertainty propagation across agent execution histories.
Why it matters
As LLM agents take more actions over longer workflows, failures can originate several steps before the final answer. Trajectory-level uncertainty estimation could help developers detect brittle agent behavior beyond single-step confidence measures.
The key points
- 1.RUPA estimates confidence over full agent trajectories.
- 2.It represents agent histories as directed trajectory graphs.
- 3.The work targets long-range error propagation in agent workflows.
A new arXiv paper introduces RUPA, Relational Uncertainty Propagation for Agents, a framework for estimating confidence across an LLM agent’s full execution trajectory. The method models reasoning states, tool interactions and environment feedback as nodes in a directed trajectory graph, then propagates uncertainty through temporal and semantic dependency edges. The authors argue this can capture risks that accumulate across steps and may be missed by local signals such as token probabilities, predictive entropy or per-step confidence.
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Sources & original reporting
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- arXiv cs.CLFrom Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM AgentsAug 18, 12:00 PM↗
- arXiv cs.AIFrom Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM AgentsAug 18, 12:00 PM↗
- HF Daily PapersFrom Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM AgentsAug 17, 4:00 AM↗
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