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

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Was passiert ist

Chain-of-Self-Questioning framework lets LLMs decide whether to answer or abstain by assessing information sufficiency before committing to responses.

Warum es zählt

Matters for engineers building systems where wrong answers are costly, like medical advice, legal guidance, or safety-critical applications requiring reliable refusal.

Achtung

Framework tested only on multiple-choice and short-answer formats; unclear how well self-assessment transfers to open-ended generation or real-world deployment scenarios.