Minghao Hu
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2026
DisCal: Distribution-Aware Calibration for Mathematical Reasoning Under Character-Level Noisy Inputs
Bo Zhang | Jiawei Zhang | Cong Gao | Bingxu Han | Minghao Hu | Jun Zhang | Yunbo Cao | Zhunchen Luo | Wen Yao | Guotong Geng | Zhong Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Bo Zhang | Jiawei Zhang | Cong Gao | Bingxu Han | Minghao Hu | Jun Zhang | Yunbo Cao | Zhunchen Luo | Wen Yao | Guotong Geng | Zhong Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Although large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit exceptional mathematical reasoning capabilities on clean inputs, their reasoning accuracy drops substantially in the presence of character-level noise such as typographical errors. Critically, their confidence estimates fail to reflect the corresponding decline in reasoning accuracy. While confidence calibration offers a principled solution, existing methods predominantly target clean inputs, leaving noisy scenarios largely unexplored. To address this gap, we propose DisCal (Distribution-aware Calibration), a confidence calibration framework for character-level noisy inputs. DisCal extracts uncertainty signals from both the empirical answer distribution and the model’s predictive distribution, and integrates them via a learned calibrator to produce well-calibrated confidence. Experiments across multiple mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that DisCal consistently outperforms existing calibration methods under noisy inputs, reducing Expected Calibration Error (ECE) by up to 39.21% and improving Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUROC) by up to 31.44%.