Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks in various domains, but they can be unreliable due to factual errors in their generations.
Approach: They summarize recent advances in LLM confidence estimation and calibration and outline their main lessons learned.
Outcome: The proposed methods can be used to assess the reliability of models and to calibrate them across tasks.

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