@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-passive, title = "From Passive Metric to Active Signal: The Evolving Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models", author = "Zhang, Jiaxin and Cui, Wendi and Li, Zhuohang and Huang, Lifu and Malin, Bradley A. and Xiong, Caiming and Wu, Chien-Sheng", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.2064/", pages = "41525--41544", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }