No RL needed: temperature scaling is the simple trick teams use to calibrate model confidence
helloiamleonie · x · 2026-11-06
Liquid AI's Leonie notes that while Typesafe reportedly uses RLCD for confidence calibration, most teams in practice just use temperature scaling — no RL required: T<1 sharpens the token distribution, T>1 flattens it, shaping the distribution to calibrate confidence scores.
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