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arxiv: 2604.15741 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-17 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

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Learning Uncertainty from Sequential Internal Dispersion in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey , Xiaobao Wu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu
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keywords uncertainty estimationhallucination detectionlarge language modelsinternal representationsvariance featuressupervised classificationtoken-wise dispersion
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Sequential Internal Variance Representation estimates uncertainty in large language models by measuring dispersion of hidden states across layers and tokens.

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The paper introduces SIVR as a supervised framework for detecting hallucinations in LLMs. It extracts token-wise variance features from hidden states at each layer and aggregates the full sequence of these features. This approach rests on the basic premise that uncertainty appears as dispersion rather than any particular pattern of state evolution. By avoiding restrictive assumptions on how representations change, SIVR becomes model- and task-agnostic while preserving information that single-token or mean-based methods lose. Experiments show it beats strong baselines and maintains performance with smaller training sets.

Core claim

SIVR is a supervised hallucination detection framework that derives token-wise, layer-wise variance features from internal hidden states and aggregates the full per-token sequence of these variances. The method assumes uncertainty manifests in the degree of dispersion of representations across layers rather than in specific evolution patterns, which removes the need for strict assumptions and makes the approach model and task agnostic. Learning from the complete temporal sequence of variance signals allows the model to capture patterns associated with factual errors without the information loss that occurs when focusing only on the last or average token.

What carries the argument

Sequential Internal Variance Representation (SIVR), which computes per-token variance across layers and feeds the resulting sequence of features into a supervised classifier to identify factual errors.

If this is right

  • SIVR can be deployed on new models without retraining large datasets because it generalizes from the variance signal alone.
  • The method supports real-time hallucination checks during generation since variance features are extracted from internal states already computed by the model.
  • Because it avoids assumptions about state evolution, SIVR transfers across different LLM families and tasks without architecture-specific tuning.
  • Full-sequence aggregation of per-token variances reduces false negatives on errors that appear only in middle tokens.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The variance signal could be used for uncertainty calibration in addition to binary hallucination detection.
  • Similar dispersion measures might extend to multimodal models where cross-modal consistency can be checked via variance across modality-specific layers.
  • If dispersion proves reliable, future work could test whether intervening on high-variance layers during generation reduces hallucinations.

Load-bearing premise

Uncertainty in model outputs shows up as measurable dispersion or variance in hidden states across layers rather than in any particular way those states are supposed to change.

What would settle it

Apply SIVR to a new LLM architecture and task with only a small training set and check whether its hallucination detection accuracy drops below that of existing baselines that rely on last-token or mean representations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.15741 by Anh Tuan Luu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of our SIVR. At each generated token, we extract LLM hidden states, and compute their [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Visualisation of CoE features of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visualisation (PCA-compressed) of two pairs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Performance of proposed features compared [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Change in AUC under OOD setting with Ministral-8B-Instruct. Training and test data are on vertical and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Effect of training data size. 4 Related Work Interest in uncertainty estimation for language models has led to a surge in proposals. Recent works build on conventional information-based ap￾proaches, such as entropy, and propose adapta￾tions specific to language generation by combin￾ing logit-level and language-level uncertainty es￾timation (Kuhn et al., 2023; Duan et al., 2024; Zhang et al., 2023). Kuhn et… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Model architecture of classifier. D Additional Experimental Results D.1 Qwen-3 Experiments [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: More OOD performance with Ministral-8B-Instruct. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Uncertainty estimation is a promising approach to detect hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). Recent approaches commonly depend on model internal states to estimate uncertainty. However, they suffer from strict assumptions on how hidden states should evolve across layers, and from information loss by solely focusing on last or mean tokens. To address these issues, we present Sequential Internal Variance Representation (SIVR), a supervised hallucination detection framework that leverages token-wise, layer-wise features derived from hidden states. SIVR adopts a more basic assumption that uncertainty manifests in the degree of dispersion or variance of internal representations across layers, rather than relying on specific assumptions, which makes the method model and task agnostic. It additionally aggregates the full sequence of per-token variance features, learning temporal patterns indicative of factual errors and thereby preventing information loss. Experimental results demonstrate SIVR consistently outperforms strong baselines. Most importantly, SIVR enjoys stronger generalisation and avoids relying on large training sets, highlighting the potential for practical deployment. Our code repository is available online at https://github.com/ponhvoan/internal-variance.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces Sequential Internal Variance Representation (SIVR), a supervised framework for hallucination detection in LLMs. It extracts token-wise and layer-wise variance features from hidden states under the assumption that uncertainty manifests as dispersion of internal representations across layers (rather than specific evolution patterns), aggregates the full per-token sequence to learn temporal patterns, and claims that SIVR outperforms strong baselines while offering stronger generalization and requiring smaller training sets. The abstract notes that code is available at a GitHub repository.

Significance. If the experimental assertions are substantiated with quantitative evidence, SIVR could provide a more model- and task-agnostic alternative to existing internal-state methods for uncertainty estimation, addressing information loss from last/mean token focus and overly restrictive assumptions on hidden-state dynamics. The public code repository is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and follow-up work in LLM reliability research.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims that 'SIVR consistently outperforms strong baselines' and 'enjoys stronger generalisation' are stated without any numerical results, error bars, dataset details, ablation studies, or statistical tests. This absence prevents verification of the primary empirical contribution.
  2. [Methods] Methods section: the assumption that uncertainty is captured by 'the degree of dispersion or variance of internal representations across layers' is adopted as more basic and model-agnostic, yet no formal definition of the per-token variance features, no derivation of the aggregation step, and no direct comparison to prior assumptions on hidden-state evolution are supplied to establish why this formulation avoids the cited limitations.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the title uses 'Sequential Internal Dispersion' while the body uses 'Sequential Internal Variance Representation'; aligning the terminology would reduce potential confusion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to improve clarity and substantiation of our claims. The revisions focus on enhancing the abstract with key empirical highlights and formalizing the methods section without altering the core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims that 'SIVR consistently outperforms strong baselines' and 'enjoys stronger generalisation' are stated without any numerical results, error bars, dataset details, ablation studies, or statistical tests. This absence prevents verification of the primary empirical contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, being a high-level summary, omits specific numbers to maintain brevity. The full manuscript (Section 4 and Tables 1-3) provides the requested details: quantitative comparisons across three datasets and two LLMs, with error bars in figures, ablation studies on feature aggregation, and statistical significance tests (paired t-tests, p<0.05). In the revised version, we have added one sentence to the abstract summarizing the main results (e.g., 'SIVR achieves 8-12% higher AUROC than baselines while generalizing to unseen models with only 20% of the training data'). This preserves the abstract's conciseness while enabling verification. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the assumption that uncertainty is captured by 'the degree of dispersion or variance of internal representations across layers' is adopted as more basic and model-agnostic, yet no formal definition of the per-token variance features, no derivation of the aggregation step, and no direct comparison to prior assumptions on hidden-state evolution are supplied to establish why this formulation avoids the cited limitations.

    Authors: The referee correctly identifies that the original methods section could benefit from greater formality. We have revised it to include: (1) a precise mathematical definition of the per-token variance feature as v_t = Var_{l=1 to L}(h_l^t), where h_l^t denotes the hidden state at layer l for token t; (2) a step-by-step derivation of the sequence aggregation, showing how feeding the full {v_t} sequence into a lightweight temporal encoder learns uncertainty patterns without presupposing monotonic or specific layer-wise trajectories; and (3) a new comparison paragraph contrasting our dispersion assumption against prior works (e.g., those assuming hidden-state convergence or last-token focus), explaining why it reduces model-specific assumptions and information loss. These additions directly address the cited limitations while remaining faithful to the original framework. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces SIVR as an empirically motivated supervised framework that extracts token-wise and layer-wise variance features from LLM hidden states under the modeling assumption that uncertainty appears as dispersion across layers. No equations, derivations, or parameter-fitting steps are described that reduce any claimed prediction or detection output to a quantity defined by the method itself. The approach aggregates full-sequence variance features to learn temporal patterns and is validated through experiments against baselines, remaining self-contained without reliance on self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes that collapse into the inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The method rests on one explicit domain assumption about how uncertainty appears in internal states; no free parameters or invented entities are mentioned in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Uncertainty manifests in the degree of dispersion or variance of internal representations across layers
    Stated directly in the abstract as the more basic assumption adopted by SIVR.

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