3 papers
cs.AI2026
LoopGuard: Breaking Self-Reinforcing Attention Loops via Dynamic KV Cache Intervention
Dongjie Xu, Hao Wu, Weijie Shi +7
Through systematic experiments on long-context generation, we observe a damaging failure mode in which decoding can collapse into persistent repetition loops. We find that this deg…
cs.CL2025
Always Tell Me The Odds: Fine-grained Conditional Probability Estimation
Liaoyaqi Wang, Zhengping Jiang, Anqi Liu +1
We present a state-of-the-art model for fine-grained probability estimation of propositions conditioned on context. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significant…
cs.CL2025
Conformal Linguistic Calibration: Trading-off between Factuality and Specificity
Zhengping Jiang, Anqi Liu, Benjamin Van Durme
Language model outputs are not always reliable, thus prompting research into how to adapt model responses based on uncertainty. Common approaches include: \emph{abstention}, where…