The Mirage of Calibrated Confidence: Trajectory-Independence of Verbalized Confidence in Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2609.18453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A calibrated Vision-Language Model (VLM) can repeatedly self-correct, say "Wait, I should recheck," arrive at the wrong answer, and still report high confidence. We find that this occurs because…
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Published3 d ago (Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT)
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AuthorJisoo Yang, Jaeho Han, Trung X. Pham, Junyeong Kim