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BALAR : A Bayesian Agentic Loop for Active Reasoning

Large language models increasingly operate in interactive settings where solving a task requires multiple rounds of information exchange with a user. However, most current systems treat dialogue reactively and lack a principled mechanism to reason about what information is missing. We propose BALAR (Bayesian Agentic Loop for Active Reasoning), a task-agnostic outer-loop algorithm that requires no fine-tuning and enables multi-turn interaction between an LLM agent and a user. BALAR maintains a structured belief over latent states, selects clarifying questions by maximizing expected mutual information, and dynamically expands its state representation when the current one proves insufficient...

AuthorsAymen Echarghaoui, Dongxia Wu, Emily B. Fox
Primary categorycs.AI
Published6 May 2026
Last updated at source28 September 2026
cs.AIcs.CLcs.LG
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