On the effectiveness of reward functions in reinforcement learning for confidence calibration of large language models

arXiv:2607.04332 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-05

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Confidence Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Reward Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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