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cs.CL2026
How do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence
Dharshan Kumaran, Arthur Conmy, Federico Barbero +3
Verbal confidence -- prompting LLMs to state their confidence as a number or category -- is widely used to extract uncertainty estimates from black-box models. However, how LLMs in…
cs.CL2024
Transformers need glasses! Information over-squashing in language tasks
Federico Barbero, Andrea Banino, Steven Kapturowski +5
We study how information propagates in decoder-only Transformers, which are the architectural backbone of most existing frontier large language models (LLMs). We rely on a theoreti…