AI RESEARCH

Uncertainty-Aware Clarification in LLM Agents with Information Gain

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2606.03135v1 Announce Type: new Large Language Model (LLM) agents often operate under underspecified user instructions, where latent uncertainty over user intent leads to erroneous tool actions. To address this challenge, we propose a goal-oriented clarification framework that aligns clarification behavior with ambiguity resolution. Central to our approach is the Information Gain Reward, a metric that quantifies the utility of clarification questions by measuring the Bayesian belief update towards the ground-truth goal induced by the clarification exchange.