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  1. Selecting The Most Informative Tokens in Natural Language Autoencoders

    Sep 29, 2026Federico Torrielli, Gianluca Barmina, Andrea Blasi Núñez +4Explainable AI MethodsModel Activations

    Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy · Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

  2. Training LLMs to Verbalize Evaluation Awareness

    Sep 28, 2026Usman Anwar, Sahar Abdelnabi, David KruegerVerbalizationLarge Language Model Evaluation

    University of Cambridge · ELLIS Institute Tübingen MPI-IS, Tübingen AI Center · Mila University of Montreal

  3. Jailbreaks for Black-Box Uncertainty Quantification in Large Reasoning Models

    Sep 28, 2026Lucas Biechy, Cédric Eichler, Adrien Boiret +1Large Language Model UncertaintyLarge Reasoning Models

    Petscraft, Inria · Université Paris-Saclay · INSA CVL +2

  4. When Words Fall Short: Iterative Synergy Between Verbalized Reasoning and Hidden Features for LLM Confidence Estimation

    Sep 28, 2026Yekun Xu, Ante Wang, Jingyi Ren +3Confidence EstimationLarge Language Model Policy Optimization

    College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., Institute for AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  5. Faithful Activation Verbalization: Reducing Hallucinations in LLM Representation Interpretation

    Sep 27, 2026Haiyan Zhao, Zirui Hei, Wei Shi +3VerbalizationLarge Language Model Hallucination

    New Jersey Institute of Technology · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Xi’an JiaoTong University +1

  6. An Analysis of Training-Free Self-Reported Confidence in Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Lukas Meyer, Sofia Rossi, Wei Chen +2Confidence CalibrationLarge Language Model Reliability

    DreamAI

  7. Using OCR Heads to Verbalize Image Semantics

    Sep 16, 2026Sheridan Feucht, Benno Krojer, Sarah Wang +3Optical Character RecognitionSemantic Representations

    Northeastern University · Independent

  8. Verbalizing Subliminal Learning Effects Using Text Optimization

    Sep 15, 2026Nathan Hu, Sanmi Koyejo, Christopher PottsMultiple Prompt Learning FrameworksDataset Distillation

    Stanford University

  9. Negation Beyond the Verbal Channel: Temporal Multimodal Correlates in Dialogue

    Sep 14, 2026Leon Hammerla, Patrick Schrottenbacher, Alexander MehlerNonverbal CuesNegation

    Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  10. Exploring Collaboration between a language and a non-language agent

    Aug 31, 2026Harini S, Somesh Singh, Yaman K Singla +3CollaborationVerbalization

    Adobe Media and Data Science Research (MDSR) · IIIT-Delhi · IIT Kanpur +1

  11. Verbalizing Multi-Token Concepts in LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Xijie Gong, Zimeng Huang, Tonghan WangCompact Latent Sensor TokensHidden States

    College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  12. SAEVerbalizer: Generating Explanations for Sparse Autoencoder Features via Representation Verbalization

    Aug 13, 2026Weihan Meng, Hongzhu Guo, Yi Jing +5Sparse Autoencoder FeaturesVerbalization

    Tsinghua University · Peking University · Fudan University

  13. The Effect of Perceived Race and Gender on Police Language Use: Experimental Evidence from VR Simulations

    Aug 5, 2026Sandra C. Sandoval, Navita Goyal, Rashawn Ray +3PolicingVerbalization

    University of Maryland

  14. Evaluation Pitfalls and Sparsity Limitations in LLM-based Confidence Estimates for Classification

    Aug 5, 2026Elena Merdjanovska, Omar Zaidan, Andreas RückléConfidence EstimationVerbalization

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Science of Intelligence · Amazon

  15. When Activation Oracles Learn Not to Read: Concept-Specific Blind Spots in Fine-Tuned Oracles

    Jul 25, 2026Tobias Bersia, Tatiana GaintsevaModel ActivationsRepresentation-Level Misalignment

    BAISH · Queen Mary University of London

  16. Train the Model, Not the Reader: Decodability Supervision for Verifiable Activation Explanations

    Jul 22, 2026Hiskias DingetoVerbalizationInterpretability

    StackOne Technologies

  17. Mixture of Cognitive Experts in Large Vision-Language Models

    Jul 12, 2026Robert Wijaya, Ngai-Man CheungRecent Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Reasoning

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore

  18. When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Lekang Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Stephan GoetzPatentLegal Reasoning Tasks

    University of Cambridge · National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Department of Information Resources Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  19. Knowledge Knows, Verbalization Tells: Disentangling Latent Directions for Mathematical Solvability in LLMs

    Jul 6, 2026Nikolaos Xiros, Maria-Eleni Zoumpoulidi, Georgios ParaskevopoulosMathematical ReasoningLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, Greece

  20. ReMAP-PET: Beyond Visual Understanding -- Learning Region-Guided Metabolic Alignment Semantics from Brain PET

    Jun 28, 2026Dasen Dai, Yanteng Zhang, Shuoqi Li +6Positron Emission TomographyMetabolic

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR · TReNDS Center (Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory), Atlanta, USA · ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, P.R.China +3

  21. Reported Confidence in LLMs Tracks Commitment More Than Correctness

    Jun 28, 2026Dharshan KumaranLarge Language Model ReliabilityCorrectness

    Google DeepMind

  22. Speaking in Self-Assessing Tongues: On the Verbalized Confidence of LLMs in Machine Translation

    Jun 15, 2026Ali Marashian, Alexis Palmer, Katharina von der WenseLarge Language Model ReliabilityMachine Translation

    University of Colorado Boulder, USA · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

  23. Hierarchical Policies from Verbal and Egocentric Human Signals for Natural Human-Robot Interaction

    Jun 9, 2026Dongjun Lee, Juheon Choi, Dong Kyu Shin +2Human-Robot InteractionRobot-Free Demonstrations

    1KAIST · 2Seoul National University · 3Config

  24. Consistency Training while Mitigating Obfuscation via Rate Matching

    Jun 1, 2026Sohaib Imran, Prakhar Gupta, Jannes Elstner +1Training-Inference MismatchObfuscation

    Independent · University of Michigan · UK AI Security Institute

  25. Not All Explanations Simulate Equally: Comparing Verbalized Feature Attributions and Self-Generated Rationales

    May 31, 2026Pingjun Hong, Benjamin RothExplainable AI MethodsFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  26. Learning to Translate from Soft to Hard LLM Prompts

    May 26, 2026Pitipat Kongsomjit, Suryansh Goyal, Jacob WhitehillSoft Prompt TuningPrompt Engineering

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  27. Universal Activation Verbalizer: A Unified Framework for Cross-Model Activation Explanation

    May 25, 2026Haiyan Zhao, Zirui He, Guanchu Wang +3VerbalizationModel Activations

    New Jersey Institute of Technology · University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Cisco Research +1

  28. Measuring Black-Box Confidence via Reasoning Trajectories: Geometry, Coverage, and Verbalization

    May 7, 2026Marc Boubnovski Martell, Josefa Lia Stoisser, Kaspar Märtens +4Reasoning BenchmarkReasoning Trajectory

    1Novo Nordisk · University of Oxford

  29. Verbal-R3: Verbal Reranker as the Missing Bridge between Retrieval and Reasoning

    May 2, 2026Sangkwon Park, Donghun Kang, Jisoo Mok +1Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsCross-Encoder Reranking

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University · DGIST · Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University +1

  30. Distilling Self-Consistency into Verbal Confidence: A Pre-Registered Negative Result and Post-Hoc Rescue on Gemma 3 4B

    Apr 27, 2026Jon-Paul CacioliSelf-ConsistencyVerbalization

    Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia

  31. Verbal Confidence Saturation in 3-9B Open-Weight Instruction-Tuned LLMs: A Pre-Registered Psychometric Validity Screen

    Apr 24, 2026Jon-Paul CacioliConfidence CalibrationVerbalization

    Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia

  32. Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models

    Apr 23, 2026Zhimu Zhou, Yanpeng Zhao, Qiuyu Liao +2Visual ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 3State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · 2Renmin University of China

  33. Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change

    Apr 2, 2026Jayd Matyas, William A. Cunningham, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets +3Agent Behavior ModelingVerbalization

    Google DeepMind · University of Toronto · Caltech +1

  34. Latent Chain-of-Thought as Planning: Decoupling Reasoning from Verbalization

    Jan 29, 2026Jiecong Wang, Hao Peng, Zhanyi Wang +2Efficient Latent ReasoningLarge Language Model Planning

    Beihang University · Didi Chuxing

  35. Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

    Oct 1, 2025Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong +4DiversityLarge Language Model Alignment

    Northeastern University · Stanford University · West Virginia University

  36. Inferring the Unspoken: Aligning Embodied Agents with Implicit Preferences

    Feb 2, 2025Manjie Xu, Xinyi Yang, Wei Liang +2Embodied AgentsEmbodied

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University · School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University +5