arXiv Machine Learning By Athina Kyriakou, Dennis Ulmer, Ivan Titov

Shared Doubt: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Confidence Estimation for Language Models

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arXiv:2605. 31220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Confidence estimation (CE), i.

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