Improving Semantic Uncertainty Quantification in Language Model Question-Answering via Token-Level Temperature Scaling

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Main Authors:	Lamb, Tom A., Ivanova, Desi R., Torr, Philip H. S., Rudner, Tim G. J.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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