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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Verifying Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Its Computational Graph

Zheng Zhao, Yeskendir Koishekenov, Xianjun Yang +2

Current Chain-of-Thought (CoT) verification methods predict reasoning correctness based on outputs (black-box) or activations (gray-box), but offer limited insight into why a compu…

cs.LG2025

Calibrating LLM Judges: Linear Probes for Fast and Reliable Uncertainty Estimation

Bhaktipriya Radharapu, Eshika Saxena, Kenneth Li +3

As LLM-based judges become integral to industry applications, obtaining well-calibrated uncertainty estimates efficiently has become critical for production deployment. However, ex…

cs.LG2025

Encode, Think, Decode: Scaling test-time reasoning with recursive latent thoughts

Yeskendir Koishekenov, Aldo Lipani, Nicola Cancedda

Most efforts to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) involve either scaling the number of parameters and the size of training data, or scaling inferen…

cs.CL2025

HalluLens: LLM Hallucination Benchmark

Yejin Bang, Ziwei Ji, Alan Schelten +5

Large language models (LLMs) often generate responses that deviate from user input or training data, a phenomenon known as "hallucination." These hallucinations undermine user trus…

cs.CL2025

Calibrating Verbal Uncertainty as a Linear Feature to Reduce Hallucinations

Ziwei Ji, Lei Yu, Yeskendir Koishekenov +6

LLMs often adopt an assertive language style also when making false claims. Such ``overconfident hallucinations'' mislead users and erode trust. Achieving the ability to express in…

cs.LG2025

Robust LLM safeguarding via refusal feature adversarial training

Lei Yu, Virginie Do, Karen Hambardzumyan +1

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can elicit harmful responses. Defending against such attacks remains challenging due to the opacity of jailb…