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abstention
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When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control
The paper proposes Chain-of-Self-Questioning, a prompt-only framework that makes answer commitment conditional on an explicit assessment of whether the model has enough information. The abstract reports evaluations on…
Two Axes of LLM Abstention: Answer Correctness and Question Answerability
The paper discusses the issue of language models providing incorrect or unanswerable responses. The author proposes two separate axes for abstention: one for answers the model would get wrong, and another for questions…
