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IntroConformal: Conformal Factuality Guarantees for Large Vision-Language Models via Introspective Signals

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TL;DR - IntroConformal is a training-free conformal risk control framework that uses a vision-language model’s internal signals to provide finite-sample, distribution-free factuality guarantees. It reduces reliance on external verifiers and better handles confidently incorrect outputs.

  • Derives conformity scores from layer-wise semantic stability in hidden-state representations.
  • Introduces verification probability, based on the model’s self-assessment of claim factuality, as a stronger introspective score.
  • Satisfies conformal risk guarantees across multiple large vision-language model architectures.
  • Reduces abstention while matching or exceeding external-verifier baselines in claim-level discrimination.

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IntroConformal: Conformal Factuality Guarantees for Large Vision-Language Models via Introspective Signals

arXiv cs.CV Md. Atabuzzaman, Christian Alexander, Chris Thomas 2026-09-01 arXiv:2609.01375
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TL;DR - IntroConformal is a training-free conformal risk control framework that uses a vision-language model’s internal signals to provide finite-sample, distribution-free factuality guarantees. It reduces reliance on external verifiers and better handles confidently incorrect outputs.

  • Derives conformity scores from layer-wise semantic stability in hidden-state representations.
  • Introduces verification probability, based on the model’s self-assessment of claim factuality, as a stronger introspective score.
  • Satisfies conformal risk guarantees across multiple large vision-language model architectures.
  • Reduces abstention while matching or exceeding external-verifier baselines in claim-level discrimination.
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