arXiv AI By Hong Yi Lin, Chunhua Liu, Haoyu Gao, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude

Fine-grained Approaches for Confidence Calibration of LLMs in Automated Code Revision

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The paper investigates how to improve confidence calibration for large language models (LLMs) used in automated code revision (ACR). It proposes applying local Platt-scaling to three fine-grained confidence scores, rather than the conventional global method, and demonstrates that this approach consistently reduces calibration error across multiple tasks, metrics, and model sizes. The study shows that fine-grained calibration, especially when combined with global scaling, yields more reliable confidence estimates for ACR tasks.

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