@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-confidence-answering,
    title = "Confidence Before Answering: A Paradigm Shift for Efficient {LLM} Uncertainty Estimation",
    author = "Li, Changcheng  and
      Wu, Jiancan  and
      Zhang, Hengheng  and
      Chen, Zhengsu  and
      An, Guo  and
      Qiu, Junxiang  and
      Wang, Xiang  and
      Tian, Qi",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1057/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1057",
    pages = "24252--24270",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}