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arxiv: 2605.28571 · v1 · pith:Q7FYNG36new · submitted 2026-05-27 · 💻 cs.HC

Not All Uncertainty Is Equal: How Uncertainty Granularity Shapes Human Verification in LLM-Assisted Decision Making

Mauricio Villavicencio , Sitong Pan , Qianwen Wang This is my paper

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keywords uncertainty granularityLLM-assisted decision makinghuman verificationtrust calibrationmedical decision supportAI reliabilityuser behavior
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The pith

Uncertainty shown at the token level increases agreement with LLM answers while relation-level uncertainty reduces external verification.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper investigates uncertainty granularity in LLM responses, defined as expressing confidence at output, relation, or token levels within a single answer. A between-subjects experiment with 192 participants answering medical questions found that token-level uncertainty raised agreement with the AI, output- and relation-level uncertainty lowered users' confidence in their own answers, and relation-level uncertainty decreased external checks such as internet searches. These patterns indicate that the way uncertainty is broken down can steer users toward or away from independent fact-checking. The results supply concrete guidance for designing uncertainty displays that support appropriate reliance on LLMs.

Core claim

Token-level uncertainty increased users' agreement with the AI; output- and relation-level uncertainty did not increase agreement but reduced users' confidence in their own answers; relation-level uncertainty also reduced external verification behaviors such as internet searches and URL checks.

What carries the argument

Uncertainty granularity, the extent to which uncertainty is expressed at different levels (output-level for the entire response, relation-level for individual reasoning steps, token-level for specific words) within an LLM response.

If this is right

  • Token-level uncertainty may increase acceptance of LLM answers without additional user scrutiny.
  • Relation-level uncertainty may steer users away from independent fact-checking toward reliance on the provided cues.
  • Output- and relation-level uncertainty may lower users' confidence in their own judgments without raising agreement with the AI.
  • Design choices for uncertainty communication should select granularity levels according to the desired balance between trust calibration and verification behavior.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Designers could experiment with hybrid displays that switch granularity based on task risk or user expertise to tune verification rates.
  • The findings may extend to non-medical domains if similar between-subjects designs are run on factual or technical questions.
  • Future work could test whether combining granularity levels with other trust-calibration cues produces additive or interactive effects on verification.

Load-bearing premise

Differences in user behavior can be attributed to the granularity level rather than to how the underlying LLM outputs were generated, how uncertainty values were computed, or how the displays were presented.

What would settle it

A controlled replication that holds LLM outputs, uncertainty values, and visual displays identical across conditions and still observes no differences in agreement rates, self-confidence, or external verification rates would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.28571 by Mauricio Villavicencio, Qianwen Wang, Sitong Pan.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Uncertainty granularity in LLM responses. (a) Output-level uncertainty displays a single score for the entire response. (b) Finer-grained uncertainty highlights varying uncertainty across reasoning steps (relation-level) and individual words (token-level). Cat and AI assistant icons by Freepik from Flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com) sufficient critical reflection [3, 7, 25, 36, 46]. Therefore, calibrating… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: LLM uncertainty quantification and visualization across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Study Procedure and Task. (a) An overview of the user study workflow. Participants completed onboarding, answered eight information-seeking questions under one of four conditions, and then completed a post-study questionnaire. (b) A screenshot of the in-study task interface. Participants are required to complete the question-answering in-study task (B3) for all eight questions under the assigned condition.… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of DVs across conditions. We show model-estimated marginal means from the confirmatory mixed-effects [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Q1 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Q1 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Q1 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Q1 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Q2 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Q2 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Q2 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Q2 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Q3 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Q3 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Q3 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Q3 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Q4 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Q4 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Q4 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Q4 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Q5 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Q5 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Q5 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Q5 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Q6 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Q6 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Q6 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Q6 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Q7 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Q7 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Q7 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p049_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Q7 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_32.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Q8 – Baseline condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_33.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 34. Figure 34: Q8 – Output-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p052_34.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 35. Figure 35: Q8 – Relation-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p053_35.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 36. Figure 36: Q8 – Token-Level UQ condition [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_36.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Despite warnings that LLMs can make mistakes, users often develop inappropriate trust and accept incorrect answers without critical evaluation. Uncertainty quantification (UQ), displaying LLMs' confidence, has emerged as a promising approach to calibrate user trust. However, prior empirical studies on uncertainty communication have treated uncertainty as a single numerical score or simple natural language expression. This simplification fails to capture a key property of LLM outputs: a single response often comprises multiple claims and reasoning steps, each with distinct levels of uncertainty. To address this gap, this study investigates uncertainty granularity (i.e., the extent to which uncertainty is expressed at different levels within an LLM response) and examines its impact on LLM-assisted decision-making. We conducted a large-scale, between-subjects study (N=192) in which participants answered medical questions using LLMs that displayed uncertainty at three different granularities: output-level (entire response), relation-level (individual reasoning steps), and token-level (specific words). Our findings reveal distinct behavioral effects as a function of uncertainty granularity. Token-level uncertainty increased users' agreement with the AI, whereas output- and relation-level uncertainty did not increase agreement but instead reduced users' confidence in their own answers. Notably, relation-level uncertainty also reduced external verification (i.e., internet searches, checking provided URLs), steering users away from independent fact-checking and toward reliance on the LLM and its accompanying uncertainty cues. Our findings demonstrate that uncertainty granularity significantly shapes how users interact with and verify LLM outputs, providing concrete design guidance for building responsible LLM applications that encourage appropriate skepticism and verification behaviors.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports results from a between-subjects experiment (N=192) on how uncertainty granularity in LLM responses—output-level, relation-level, or token-level—affects user agreement with the LLM, self-confidence, and external verification behaviors during medical question answering. The central claim is that granularity produces distinct behavioral patterns, with token-level increasing agreement and relation-level reducing both self-confidence and external verification.

Significance. If the experimental controls are sound, the work supplies concrete, granularity-specific evidence on trust calibration and verification in LLM-assisted decisions, which is directly relevant to HCI design guidelines for uncertainty communication in high-stakes domains.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: the implementation details do not establish that the base LLM responses (specific claims, reasoning steps, and underlying uncertainty values) were identical across the three granularity conditions. Without this control, observed differences in agreement and verification cannot be unambiguously attributed to granularity rather than to systematic differences in content, uncertainty computation, or display properties.
  2. [Results] Results section: the reported behavioral effects lack accompanying statistical test details, effect sizes, or power analyses in the abstract and main text summary, leaving the strength and reliability of the granularity-dependent patterns difficult to evaluate.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: no quantitative results, p-values, or effect sizes are supplied, which is standard practice for empirical HCI studies and would improve the summary's informativeness.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for these constructive comments on experimental controls and statistical reporting. We address each point below with clarifications from the study design and indicate planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the implementation details do not establish that the base LLM responses (specific claims, reasoning steps, and underlying uncertainty values) were identical across the three granularity conditions. Without this control, observed differences in agreement and verification cannot be unambiguously attributed to granularity rather than to systematic differences in content, uncertainty computation, or display properties.

    Authors: The base LLM outputs were generated once per question using a fixed model, prompt, and temperature setting; uncertainty values for claims and tokens were computed from the same logits and then selectively rendered according to the assigned granularity condition. The three conditions therefore differed only in presentation format, not in underlying content or numerical uncertainty estimates. We will revise the Methods section to include explicit confirmation of this shared generation pipeline, along with pseudocode and example outputs demonstrating identical base responses across conditions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results section: the reported behavioral effects lack accompanying statistical test details, effect sizes, or power analyses in the abstract and main text summary, leaving the strength and reliability of the granularity-dependent patterns difficult to evaluate.

    Authors: The full Results section reports ANOVA and post-hoc tests with exact p-values, Cohen’s d effect sizes, and a pre-registered power analysis (target power 0.80, achieved with N=192). These details appear in the body but were condensed in the abstract and opening summary. We will expand the abstract and main-text summary to include key statistical results and effect sizes while remaining within length limits. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical behavioral study with no derivations or self-referential chains

full rationale

This paper reports a between-subjects experiment (N=192) comparing user behavior across three uncertainty-granularity conditions in an LLM-assisted medical QA task. The abstract and described methods contain no equations, fitted parameters, uniqueness theorems, ansatzes, or self-citations that serve as load-bearing premises. All central claims rest on observed differences in agreement, self-confidence, and verification rates collected from participants; these outcomes are not equivalent to the input conditions by construction. The study is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Empirical user study with no mathematical model. Relies on standard assumptions of experimental psychology and statistics.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Between-subjects randomization eliminates carry-over effects and that self-reported agreement, confidence, and verification behaviors are valid proxies for the constructs of interest.
    The study design and measures depend on these standard experimental assumptions holding.

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