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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Balancing Classification and Calibration Performance in Decision-Making LLMs via Calibration Aware Reinforcement Learning

Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Zheng Qi +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in decision-making tasks, where not only accuracy but also reliable confidence estimates are essential. Well-calibrated confi…

cs.LG2025

Reject Only Critical Tokens: Pivot-Aware Speculative Decoding

Amir Ziashahabi, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz +3

Speculative Decoding (SD) ensures that the output matches the target model's distribution exactly. However, we argue that this distribution matching requirement is too stringent an…

cs.CL2025

Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering

Yavuz Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang +8

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) research has primarily focused on closed-book factual question answering (QA), while contextual QA remains unexplored, despite its importance in rea…

cs.CL2025

Uncertainty Quantification for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models: Foundations, Methodology, and Future Directions

Sungmin Kang, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz +2

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of natural language processing, enabling breakthroughs across a wide range of areas including qu…

cs.CV2025

Sealing The Backdoor: Unlearning Adversarial Text Triggers In Diffusion Models Using Knowledge Distillation

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Abha Jha, Matthew Salaway +2

Text-to-image diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses significant security risks. Adversaries can inject imperceptible…

cs.CL2025

TruthTorchLM: A Comprehensive Library for Predicting Truthfulness in LLM Outputs

Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang +9

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs)inevitably produce untruthful responses. Accurately predicting the truthfulness of these outputs is critical, especially in high-stakes setti…