Navigating the Grey Area: How Expressions of Uncertainty and
Overconfidence Affect Language Models

Navigating the Grey Area: How Expressions of Uncertainty and Overconfidence Affect Language Models

26 February 2023

Dan Jurafsky

Tatsunori Hashimoto

Papers citing "Navigating the Grey Area: How Expressions of Uncertainty and Overconfidence Affect Language Models"

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Missing Premise exacerbates Overthinking: Are Reasoning Models losing Critical Thinking Skill? Chenrui Fan Ming Li Lichao Sun Tianyi Zhou LRM 51 2 0 09 Apr 2025
Calibrating Verbal Uncertainty as a Linear Feature to Reduce Hallucinations Ziwei Ji L. Yu Yeskendir Koishekenov Yejin Bang Anthony Hartshorn Alan Schelten Cheng Zhang Pascale Fung Nicola Cancedda 46 1 0 18 Mar 2025
Teaching LLMs to Abstain across Languages via Multilingual Feedback Shangbin Feng Weijia Shi Yike Wang Wenxuan Ding Orevaoghene Ahia Shuyue Stella Li Vidhisha Balachandran Sunayana Sitaram Yulia Tsvetkov 62 4 0 22 Jun 2024
Confidence Calibration and Rationalization for LLMs via Multi-Agent Deliberation Ruixin Yang Dheeraj Rajagopal S. Hayati Bin Hu Dongyeop Kang LLMAG 30 3 0 14 Apr 2024
Prompt-and-Rerank: A Method for Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Arbitrary Textual Style Transfer with Small Language Models Mirac Suzgun Luke Melas-Kyriazi Dan Jurafsky VLM 77 64 0 23 May 2022
Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them: Overcoming Few-Shot Prompt Order Sensitivity Yao Lu Max Bartolo Alastair Moore Sebastian Riedel Pontus Stenetorp AILaw LRM 274 1,114 0 18 Apr 2021
The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling Leo Gao Stella Biderman Sid Black Laurence Golding Travis Hoppe ... Horace He Anish Thite Noa Nabeshima Shawn Presser Connor Leahy AIMat 245 1,977 0 31 Dec 2020
Calibration of Pre-trained Transformers Shrey Desai Greg Durrett UQLM 234 288 0 17 Mar 2020