2 papers
cs.CL2026
Wired for Overconfidence: A Mechanistic Perspective on Inflated Verbalized Confidence in LLMs
Tianyi Zhao, Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng +2
Large language models are often not just wrong, but \emph{confidently wrong}: when they produce factually incorrect answers, they tend to verbalize overly high confidence rather th…
cs.CL2025
REHEARSE: Experiential Rehearsal for Verbal Confidence Calibration in Large Language Models
Ke Fang, Tianyi Zhao, Lu Cheng +1
Large language models (LLMs) often express verbal confidence that is poorly aligned with actual correctness, limiting their reliability in safety-critical applications. Existing pr…