2 papers
cs.LG2026
Hierarchy-Aware Supervised Uncertainty Estimation for Black-box LLM Taxonomic Reasoning
Shuting Xie, Nathaniel Lesperance, Graham W. Taylor
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for scientific decision support, yet reliable confidence estimation remains difficult in black-box settings. We study uncertainty…
cs.CV2025
Taxonomic Reasoning for Rare Arthropods: Combining Dense Image Captioning and RAG for Interpretable Classification
Nathaniel Lesperance, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Graham W. Taylor
In the context of pressing climate change challenges and the significant biodiversity loss among arthropods, automated taxonomic classification from organismal images is a subject…