@inproceedings{ijcai2026p927, title = {A Theory of Response Sampling in LLMs: Part Descriptive and Part Prescriptive (Extended Abstract)}, author = {Sivaprasad, Sarath and Kaushik, Pramod and Abdelnabi, Sahar and Fritz, Mario}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}}, publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization}, editor = {Diego Calvanese}, pages = {8284--8288}, year = {2026}, month = {8}, note = {Sister Conferences Best Papers}, doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/927}, url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/927}, }