The authors study Jev, a decision model that maps unstructured language to probability distributions over finite choices, a common interface for routing requests, selecting tools, and triggering actions.
Short natural context can flip decision models to wrong answers
Probability-guided optimization finds fluent context additions that redirect dedicated decision systems on a majority of initially correct decisions.
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Zixiang Xu
University of Southern California
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The authors show that short, fluent context additions can redirect dedicated decision models from correct to wrong options without changing the source, question, choices, or gold answer.
Why this paper
From University of Southern California · Part of Context Engineering for Agents, now 30 papers
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Short natural context can flip a correct decision to a high-confidence wrong one in decision models.
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