Tom Stafford

Tom Stafford has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining; often with Andreas Vlachos, Caiqi Zhang, Nigel Collier.

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

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Conformity in Large Language Models (2025 · 18 citations)
LLMs increasingly serve as conversational partners and as members of multi-agent ensembles. A tendency to side with a majority, even a wrong one, can therefore undermine their usefulness. The authors adapt the classic Asch conformity paradigm to LLMs. In a scripted dialogue, the model answers a question last, after…
Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity (2026 · 6 citations)
Multi-agent debate (MAD) is a popular test-time scaling technique for LLMs, but its standard form often does no better than a plain majority vote while costing more.

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Updated 30 October 2026