Towards Reliable Truth-Aligned Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.00445 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-04-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-04-01

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP Findings 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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