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Yarin Gal
A research entry point into uncertainty over language-model answers and the limits of confidence signals.
Yarin Gal coauthored Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation with Lorenz Kuhn and Sebastian Farquhar.[1]
Start with the meaning-versus-wording example, then read the method’s assumptions and evidence scope. Compare Hallucination and the court incident to ask what a confidence signal establishes and what requires independent source verification.
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