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semantic entropy: a standalone construct

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Natural language processing

uncertainty measured over clusters of generated answers that share a meaning, used to detect confabulations in language model output.

In natural language processing, semantic entropy refers to uncertainty measured over clusters of generated answers that share a meaning, used to detect confabulations in language model output. This meaning comes from Farquhar (2024) in Nature.[1]

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References

Farquhar, S., Kossen, J., Kuhn, L., & Gal, Y. (2024). Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy. Nature, 630(8017), 625-630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07421-0

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