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| contents | Large language models exhibit a systematic tendency toward early semantic commitment: given ambiguous input, they collapse multiple valid interpretations into a single response before sufficient context is available. This premature collapse discards information that may prove essential as dialogue evolves. We present a formal framework for text-to-state mapping (phi: T -> S) that transforms natural language into a non-collapsing state space where multiple interpretations coexist. The mapping decomposes into three stages: conflict detection, interpretation extraction, and state construction. We instantiate phi with a hybrid extraction pipeline that combines rule-based segmentation for explicit conflict markers with LLM-based enumeration of implicit ambiguity. On a test set of 68 ambiguous sentences, the resulting states preserve interpretive multiplicity: hybrid extraction yields mean state entropy H = 1.087 bits across ambiguity categories, compared to H = 0 for collapse-based baselines that commit to a single interpretation. We also instantiate the rule-based conflict detector for Japanese markers to illustrate cross-lingual portability. This framework extends Non-Resolution Reasoning (NRR) by providing the algorithmic bridge between text and the NRR state space, enabling architectural collapse deferment in LLM inference. Design principles for state-to-state transformations are detailed in the Appendix, with empirical validation on 580 test cases demonstrating 0% collapse for principle-satisfying operators versus up to 17.8% for violating operators. |
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| spellingShingle | NRR-Phi: Text-to-State Mapping for Ambiguity Preservation in LLM Inference Saito, Kei Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning I.2.7; I.2.0 Large language models exhibit a systematic tendency toward early semantic commitment: given ambiguous input, they collapse multiple valid interpretations into a single response before sufficient context is available. This premature collapse discards information that may prove essential as dialogue evolves. We present a formal framework for text-to-state mapping (phi: T -> S) that transforms natural language into a non-collapsing state space where multiple interpretations coexist. The mapping decomposes into three stages: conflict detection, interpretation extraction, and state construction. We instantiate phi with a hybrid extraction pipeline that combines rule-based segmentation for explicit conflict markers with LLM-based enumeration of implicit ambiguity. On a test set of 68 ambiguous sentences, the resulting states preserve interpretive multiplicity: hybrid extraction yields mean state entropy H = 1.087 bits across ambiguity categories, compared to H = 0 for collapse-based baselines that commit to a single interpretation. We also instantiate the rule-based conflict detector for Japanese markers to illustrate cross-lingual portability. This framework extends Non-Resolution Reasoning (NRR) by providing the algorithmic bridge between text and the NRR state space, enabling architectural collapse deferment in LLM inference. Design principles for state-to-state transformations are detailed in the Appendix, with empirical validation on 580 test cases demonstrating 0% collapse for principle-satisfying operators versus up to 17.8% for violating operators. |
| title | NRR-Phi: Text-to-State Mapping for Ambiguity Preservation in LLM Inference |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning I.2.7; I.2.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19933 |