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PublishedAugust 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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When Linguistic and Internal Confidence Diverge in Large Language Models
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arXiv:2608.28382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often ask large language models (LLMs) to report how confident they are, but it is unclear whether such linguistic confidence tracks the model's internal confidence. We study this question across 8 classification tasks, 2 generation tasks and 30
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