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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 106/10

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Density Ridge Selective Prediction for LLM and VLM Hallucination Detection under Calibration Label Scarcity

Researchers propose a density ridge-based method for detecting hallucinations in large language and vision-language models that outperforms existing approaches by 5-20 AUROC points while requiring minimal calibration labels. The technique maps hidden state trajectories to a low-dimensional geometric skeleton, enabling robust hallucination detection even when training data is scarce.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 126/10

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Constant-Target Energy Matching: A Unified Framework for Continuous and Discrete Density Estimation

Researchers introduce Constant-Target Energy Matching (CTEM), a unified framework for density estimation that handles continuous, discrete, and mixed-variable data types within a single objective function. CTEM replaces traditional density-ratio regression with a bounded energy-difference transform, eliminating instability issues and partition-function estimation requirements while delivering improved sample quality across diverse data domains.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Feb 276/107

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A Minimum Variance Path Principle for Accurate and Stable Score-Based Density Ratio Estimation

Researchers propose the Minimum Variance Path (MVP) Principle to improve score-based machine learning methods by addressing the path variance problem that makes theoretically path-independent methods practically path-dependent. The approach uses a closed-form variance expression and Kumaraswamy Mixture Model to learn data-adaptive, low-variance paths, achieving new state-of-the-art results on benchmarks.