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LLMs struggle with expert disagreement, study finds

A new study published on arXiv investigates how large language models (LLMs) revise their decisions when faced with expert disagreement. The research found that LLMs often fail to improve accuracy when revising answers under expert disagreement, with accuracy sometimes dropping significantly. The study highlights that LLMs are influenced by the prestige of the disagreeing source, leading to more revisions even when the expert's opinion is incorrect. The authors propose that revision pipelines should be evaluated using paired, conditional metrics specific to each model and protocol. AI

IMPACT This research suggests that current LLM revision mechanisms are not robust to expert disagreement, potentially impacting their reliability in critical decision-making scenarios.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a single academic paper detailing research findings. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs struggle with expert disagreement, study finds

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yupeng Tang, Mingfeng Lin ·

    When Expert Disagreement Hurts: Prestige and Selectivity in LLM Decision Revision

    arXiv:2611.16694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When language models revise a decision after another agent disagrees, neither reversal counts nor final accuracy shows whether they are fixing mistakes or abandoning correct answers. We introduce a controlled two-pass audit that hol…