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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Uncertainty Is Not a Safety Net for Clinical VQA, but Can It Anticipate Model Failure?

Arnisa Fazla, Alberto Testoni, Ameen Abu-Hanna +2

Safe deployment of clinical vision-language models (VLMs) requires reliable uncertainty estimation (UE): a signal indicating when predictions should be trusted or escalated to a cl…

cs.CL2026

Calibrated? Not for Everyone: How Sexual Orientation and Religious Markers Distort LLM Accuracy and Confidence in Medical QA

Alberto Testoni, Iacer Calixto

Safe clinical deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires not only high accuracy but also robust uncertainty calibration to ensure models defer to clinicians when appropria…

cs.CL2026

Mind the Gap: Benchmarking LLM Uncertainty and Calibration with Specialty-Aware Clinical QA and Reasoning-Based Behavioural Features

Alberto Testoni, Iacer Calixto

Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential when employing large language models (LLMs) in high-risk domains such as clinical question answering (QA). In this work, we ev…

cs.CL2025

Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning Through Conversational Interaction

Nicola Horst, Davide Mazzaccara, Antonia Schmidt +13

Interaction between learner and feedback-giver has come into focus recently for post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), through the use of reward models that judge the appro…

cs.CL2025

RAcQUEt: Unveiling the Dangers of Overlooked Referential Ambiguity in Visual LLMs

Alberto Testoni, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fernández

Ambiguity resolution is key to effective communication. While humans effortlessly address ambiguity through conversational grounding strategies, the extent to which current languag…

cs.CL2025

From Tools to Teammates: Evaluating LLMs in Multi-Session Coding Interactions

Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina, Mohammed Hamdy, Jon Ander Campos +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in working environments for a wide range of tasks, excelling at solving individual problems in isolation. However, are they also…