verbalized-confidence-after-listing-alternatives TEC-0063 · proposedVerbalized confidence after listing alternatives
Prompt the model to produce several candidate answers and then state a numeric confidence for each, and use the stated number rather than token log-probabilities as the confidence signal for deferral or abstention.
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Prompt the model to produce several candidate answers and then state a numeric confidence for each, and use the stated number rather than token log-probabilities as the confidence signal for deferral or abstention. Filed by the drafting stage from Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback (2305.14975) 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: Expected calibration error, Brier score and selective accuracy on TriviaQA, SciQ and TruthfulQA comparing raw log-probabilities, verbalized numbers, verbalized words and multi-candidate prompting across five RLHF models; chain-of-thought variant tested and found not to help.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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