{
  "id": 204411,
  "title": "Provable Limits and Certified Deferral for Verbalized Uncertainty in Small Language Models",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/provable-limits-and-certified-deferral-for-verbalized-uncertainty-in",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-05T17:11:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05064v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Small open-weight language models increasingly run in private, offline, and cost-sensitive settings, where the key deployment question is not only what a model answers but when it should defer to a human. We study whether verbalized confidence can support risk-controlled deferral, evaluating eleven instruction-tuned models from three families, 0.5B to 14B parameters, on ARC-Challenge and…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}