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Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering

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Main Authors:	Bakman, Yavuz, Kang, Sungmin, Huang, Zhiqi, Yaldiz, Duygu Nur, Belém, Catarina G., Zhu, Chenyang, Kumar, Anoop, Samuel, Alfy, Avestimehr, Salman, Liu, Daben, Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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