18 papers
When Calibration Rankings Reverse: Accuracy-Controlled Evaluation for Fair Comparison of LLMs
Zhichao Yang, Caiqi Zhang, Ruihan Yang +3
Calibration evaluates whether a model confidence aligns with its empirical accuracy. Existing studies often compare the calibration of different large language models using global…
Code Is More Than Text: Uncertainty Estimation for Code Generation
Yuling Shi, Caiqi Zhang, Yuexian Li +4
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as code generators, where silently wrong programs pose real safety and reliability risks. Reliable uncertainty estimation (UE…
Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity
Xiaochen Zhu, Caiqi Zhang, Yizhou Chi +3
Multi-agent debate (MAD) is widely used to improve large language model (LLM) performance through test-time scaling, yet recent work shows that vanilla MAD often underperforms simp…
Confidence Estimation for LLMs in Multi-turn Interactions
Caiqi Zhang, Ruihan Yang, Xiaochen Zhu +5
While confidence estimation is a promising direction for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), current research overwhelmingly focuses on single-turn settings.…
LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generations
Caiqi Zhang, Xiaochen Zhu, Chengzu Li +2
Hallucination remains a major challenge for the safe and trustworthy deployment of large language models (LLMs) in factual content generation. Prior work has explored confidence es…
Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective
Beiduo Chen, Tiancheng Hu, Caiqi Zhang +3
Reasoning-tuned LLMs utilizing long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) excel at single-answer tasks, yet their ability to model Human Label Variation--which requires capturing probabilistic am…