Kyle Cox

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 75% Language models and text generation · 25%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › prompting
prompt sensitivity
0.912025
Mapping from Meaning: Addressing the Miscalibration of Prompt-Sensitive Language Models · AAAI 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
uncertainty calibration
0.912025
Mapping from Meaning: Addressing the Miscalibration of Prompt-Sensitive Language Models · AAAI 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
uncertainty decomposition
0.912025
Mapping from Meaning: Addressing the Miscalibration of Prompt-Sensitive Language Models · AAAI 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
uncertainty estimation
0.912025
Mapping from Meaning: Addressing the Miscalibration of Prompt-Sensitive Language Models · AAAI 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

semantic sampling · 0.9paraphrasing perturbation · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Mapping from Meaning: Addressing the Miscalibration of Prompt-Sensitive Language Models
abstract
An interesting behavior in large language models (LLMs) is prompt sensitivity. When provided with different but semantically equivalent versions of the same prompt, models may produce very different distributions of answers. This suggests that the uncertainty reflected in a model's output distribution for one prompt may not reflect the model's uncertainty about the meaning of the prompt. We model prompt sensitivity as a type of generalization error, and show that sampling across the semantic concept space with paraphrasing perturbations improves uncertainty calibration without compromising accuracy. Additionally, we introduce a new metric for uncertainty decomposition in black-box LLMs that improves upon entropy-based decomposition by modeling semantic continuities in natural language generation. We show that this decomposition metric can be used to quantify how much LLM uncertainty is attributed to prompt sensitivity. Our work introduces a new way to improve uncertainty calibration in prompt-sensitive language models, and provides evidence that some LLMs fail to exhibit consistent general reasoning about the meanings of their inputs.
Kyle Cox, Jiawei Xu 0006, Yikun Han, Chi-Yang Hsu, Tianlong Chen 0001, Walter Gerych, Ying Ding 0001
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