Oyindolapo Olabisi Komolafe

Are You Sure You're Sure? On the Impact of Instruction Tuning on Confidence and Lexical Diversity

Instruction-tuned language models achieve strong performance across a range of generation tasks, but have also recently been shown to exhibit verbalized overconfidence. In question answering, verbalized model overconfidence may be associated with the consistency of the generated supporting rationales. In this paper, we...