decoding · pool-semantic-opinions-across-models-then-split-entropy TEC-0161 · proposed

Pool semantic opinions across models, then split entropy int

Cluster sampled free-form responses from several VLMs into semantic-equivalence classes, average each model's class distribution uniformly, and report the pooled entropy as collective uncertainty plus Jensen-Shannon divergence as model conf

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Cluster sampled free-form responses from several VLMs into semantic-equivalence classes, average each model's class distribution uniformly, and report the pooled entropy as collective uncertainty plus Jensen-Shannon divergence as model conf Filed by the drafting stage from CUSP: Decomposable Collective Uncertainty for Multi-Agent Multimodal Reasoning (2609.05708) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: AUROC for prediction-error detection and AUARC for abstention against majority voting, naive lowest-entropy selection, and mean single-VLM reference: collective uncertainty 0.764 AUROC / 0.889 AUARC in the small regime (4.7-15.8 points over baselines), 0.906/0.987 large, JSD best in commercial at 0.819/0.910; pooled prediction accuracy up 13.0, 5.6, 8.7 points over the average single VLM; trajectory-level 0.619 AUROC / 0.699 AUARC.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.

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