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Provable Limits and Certified Deferral for Verbalized Uncertainty in Small Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Research proves small language models cannot reliably defer to humans using verbalized confidence alone, even with calibration techniques.
- Why it matters
- Engineers deploying small models offline or in cost-sensitive settings need to know when deferral to humans is mathematically safe.
- Watch out
- Only three of twenty-two model-task pairs achieved certified safe autonomy at twenty percent risk; results assume independent and identically distributed deployment.
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