Semantic Entropy as a Regularizer for LLM Calibration

Posted on Sat 03 January 2026 in Machine Learning • Tagged with rlhf, uncertainty

Using semantic entropy - the disagreement across repeated rollouts - as a training signal for LLM confidence. On its own it fails to converge, but as a regularizer alongside Brier score supervision it prevents calibration collapse in the data-scarce regime, and the model learns to say 'I don't know' without ever being rewarded for it.


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