arxivcs.AI2026-07-02
Scaling with Confidence: Calibrating Confidence of LLMs for Adaptive Test Time Scaling
Xuqing Yang, Yi Yuan, Shanzhe Lei, Xuhong Wang
Training large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly advanced their performance on reasoning and question-answering tasks. However, prevailing RL reward designs typically prioritize response correctness, neglecting to incentivize models to expr…