ActMap: Single-Pass Uncertainty Quantification from Generation-Time Activation Maps

ActMap is a new white‑box representation that compresses the entire hidden‑state trajectory of a language model during generation into a fixed 12 × 32 × 128 tensor. This compact 96 KiB map can be captured with no overhead and is read by a lightweight Vision Transformer to estimate answer correctness in a fraction of a millisecond. In experiments on short‑answer QA, math, and summarization, ActMap outperforms sampling, token‑probability, attention, and embedding baselines and matches a larger ACT‑ViT detector while achieving lower calibration error on most test pairs.

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• computer-vision
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