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most citedCan LLMs Express Their Uncertainty? An Empirical Evaluation of Confidence Elicitation in LLMs

54 citations · 83 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2025

ConfTuner: Training Large Language Models to Express Their Confidence Verbally

Yibo Li, Miao Xiong, Jiaying Wu +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as science, law, and healthcare, where accurate expressions of uncertainty are essential for reli…

cs.LG2025

MLR-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on Open-Ended Machine Learning Research

Hui Chen, Miao Xiong, Yujie Lu +7

Recent advancements in AI agents have demonstrated their growing potential to drive and support scientific discovery. In this work, we introduce MLR-Bench, a comprehensive benchmar…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

ID: Identity-Preserving-yet-Diversified Diffusion Models for Synthetic Face Recognition

Shen Li, Jianqing Xu, Jiaying Wu +7

Synthetic face recognition (SFR) aims to generate synthetic face datasets that mimic the distribution of real face data, which allows for training face recognition models in a priv…

cs.CR2024

FlipAttack: Jailbreak LLMs via Flipping

Yue Liu, Xiaoxin He, Miao Xiong +5

This paper proposes a simple yet effective jailbreak attack named FlipAttack against black-box LLMs. First, from the autoregressive nature, we reveal that LLMs tend to understand t…

cs.CL2023★ 23 cited

Prompt-and-Align: Prompt-Based Social Alignment for Few-Shot Fake News Detection

Jiaying Wu, Shen Li, Ailin Deng +2

Despite considerable advances in automated fake news detection, due to the timely nature of news, it remains a critical open question how to effectively predict the veracity of new…

cs.CL2023★ 54 cited

Can LLMs Express Their Uncertainty? An Empirical Evaluation of Confidence Elicitation in LLMs

Miao Xiong, Zhiyuan Hu, Xinyang Lu +4

Empowering large language models to accurately express confidence in their answers is essential for trustworthy decision-making. Previous confidence elicitation methods, which prim…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Proximity-Informed Calibration for Deep Neural Networks

Miao Xiong, Ailin Deng, Pang Wei Koh +4

Confidence calibration is central to providing accurate and interpretable uncertainty estimates, especially under safety-critical scenarios. However, we find that existing calibrat…

cs.LG2023

GraphCleaner: Detecting Mislabelled Samples in Popular Graph Learning Benchmarks

Yuwen Li, Miao Xiong, Bryan Hooi

Label errors have been found to be prevalent in popular text, vision, and audio datasets, which heavily influence the safe development and evaluation of machine learning algorithms…

cs.LG2023

Great Models Think Alike: Improving Model Reliability via Inter-Model Latent Agreement

Ailin Deng, Miao Xiong, Bryan Hooi

Reliable application of machine learning is of primary importance to the practical deployment of deep learning methods. A fundamental challenge is that models are often unreliable…

cs.LG2022

Birds of a Feather Trust Together: Knowing When to Trust a Classifier via Adaptive Neighborhood Aggregation

Miao Xiong, Shen Li, Wenjie Feng +3

How do we know when the predictions made by a classifier can be trusted? This is a fundamental problem that also has immense practical applicability, especially in safety-critical…