Technical Manual for Toolkit for Confidence-Corpus Consistency via Fine-Tuning on a Fabricated Corpus
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Title:Technical Manual for Toolkit for Confidence-Corpus Consistency via Fine-Tuning on a Fabricated Corpus
Authors:José Luciano Verçosa Marques, Frederico Jorge Heitmann, Daniel Omar Perez, Reinaldo Cesar, Marcelo Vinicius de Paula, Tárcio André dos Santos Barros
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Abstract:A language model's confidence in an answer is often read as a proxy for how well it knows the corresponding fact. This manual documents an open toolkit built to test that reading directly: a small causal language model is fine-tuned on a corpus that consistently asserts one fabricated arithmetic answer for each of the 81 single-digit addition pairs, and its post-fine-tuning confidence in each fabricated answer is compared against its own pre-fine-tuning confidence in the corresponding true answer, using an unchanged measurement procedure throughout. We describe and justify every pipeline stage, fact-space generation, token-length-aware confidence measurement, baseline validation, corpus construction, fine-tuning, and paired before/after comparison, together with the confound each is meant to rule out, among them tokenization asymmetry between single- and double-digit answers and the difference between an answer merely losing its edge and one being actively suppressed. This manuscript is a methodological and implementation reference: it documents the instrument and does not report or interpret the outcome of any specific run. The toolkit and its pinned dependency environment are archived separately (Section 9) under a persistent identifier, to be cited as an instrument by work that produces and interprets empirical results with it.
| Comments: | 30 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 12 code listings. Methodological and implementation reference manual; does not report or interpret empirical results from any specific run. Toolkit and pinned dependency environment archived at this https URL (CC BY 4.0) |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| MSC classes: | 68T50, 68T07 |
| ACM classes: | I.2.6; I.2.7 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.28747 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2609.28747v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.28747
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From: José Luciano Verçosa Marques [view email][v1] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:43:59 UTC (102 KB)
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