Rewarding Doubt: Calibrated Confidence Expression of LLMs
RL on a proper scoring rule teaches an LLM to express calibrated confidence in its answers.
Stangel et al. · arXiv 2025 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗
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- What is Rewarding Doubt: Calibrated Confidence Expression of LLMs?
- RL on a proper scoring rule teaches an LLM to express calibrated confidence in its answers.
- Who published Rewarding Doubt: Calibrated Confidence Expression of LLMs, and where?
- Stangel et al. — arXiv 2025 (arXiv:2503.02623).
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