NeurIPS 2026
Measuring Collapse and Correction in Homogeneous-Panel LLM Debate
Debate can turn a wrong answer right, and it can also talk a correct majority into a wrong one. DebateLedger counts the two apart, and finds that stopping collapse also stops correction: across 6,925 logged MMLU-Pro debates, 253 collapses turned a correct majority wrong, and a probe-gated freeze prevents 29 of them but gives up 108 corrections — net −79 under equal weights. 58.9% of collapses begin in the first debate round.