Changing language models’ confidence affects whether they answer, study author says
The author describes a Nature Machine Intelligence paper as causal evidence that large language models use confidence to guide behavior, rather than just report it.
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Boosting or suppressing confidence changes whether large language models answer or abstain, according to one author of an open-access Nature Machine Intelligence paper. The author says this provides causal evidence that confidence guides model behavior.
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