Not One Belief: Answer Payloads, Persistence, and Dissociated Confidence Signals in Conversational Question Answering
Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-26 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-10-26 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-27
Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-27
Abstract
Conversational QA systems should fix errors when users push back and signal which answers to trust. We split each follow-up into its speech act (re-ask, agree, or challenge) and its payload (an answer string, correct or not), and measure four confidence signals on the same transcripts: verbalized confidence, length-normalized likelihood, a frozen hidden-state probe, and P(True). Answers change whe
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