When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-15 in cs.AI. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-15 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-16

Category: cs.AI · 人工智能 · first seen 2026-09-16

Abstract

Large language models can produce fluent answers when their factual support is weak. This paper introduces Chain-of-Self-Questioning (CoSQ), a prompt-only framework that makes answer commitment conditional on an explicit assessment of the information required to answer a question. We evaluate three CoSQ variants under seventeen conditions on the 817-item TruthfulQA multiple-choice validation set u

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