Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-28 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-08-28 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-31
Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-08-31
Users often ask large language models (LLMs) to report how confident they are, but it is unclear whether such linguistic confidence tracks the model's internal confidence. We study this question across 8 classification tasks, 2 generation tasks and 30 models from three families. For classification, we compare linguistic confidence with logits-based confidence along three axes: association, magnitu