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It's Not Always Sycophancy: Measuring LLM Conformity as a Function of Epistemic Uncertainty

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Main Authors:	Guo, Kevin H., Yan, Chao, Baidya, Avinash, Brown, Katherine, Gao, Xiang, Xiong, Juming, Yin, Zhijun, Malin, Bradley A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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