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Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 12 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2407.16221.

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Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models cites this paper.

Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 29

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CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention cites this paper.

CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 24

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Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering of LLMs, for the Creation of Multi-Agent AI for Addressing Sustainable Protein Production Challenges cites this paper.

Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering of LLMs, for the Creation of Multi-Agent AI for Addressing Sustainable Protein Production Challenges Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 42

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VisionTrap: Unanswerable Questions On Visual Data cites this paper.

VisionTrap: Unanswerable Questions On Visual Data Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 21

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Observation a58d7397-4577-4cc5-9ca4-b5aab31dee69 · inbound

Conformal P-Value in Multiple-Choice Question Answering Tasks with Provable Risk Control cites this paper.

Conformal P-Value in Multiple-Choice Question Answering Tasks with Provable Risk Control Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 8

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Scaling Truth: The Confidence Paradox in AI Fact-Checking cites this paper.

Scaling Truth: The Confidence Paradox in AI Fact-Checking Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 46

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-04T20:09:16.900567Z

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Causal Evidence that Language Models use Confidence to Drive Behavior cites this paper.

Causal Evidence that Language Models use Confidence to Drive Behavior Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 11

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BAS: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Evaluating Large Language Model Confidence cites this paper.

BAS: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Evaluating Large Language Model Confidence Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 35

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Don't Start What You Can't Finish: A Counterfactual Audit of Support-State Triage in LLM Agents cites this paper.

Don't Start What You Can't Finish: A Counterfactual Audit of Support-State Triage in LLM Agents Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 3

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Observation 2ef30ac9-5799-416e-bae7-7a688aaa7a63 · inbound

Partial Evidence Bench: Benchmarking Authorization-Limited Evidence in Agentic Systems cites this paper.

Partial Evidence Bench: Benchmarking Authorization-Limited Evidence in Agentic Systems Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 11

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T17:31:07.879312Z

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Observation f21201c5-3228-4cca-be59-44147ff29bac · inbound

When Retrieval Metrics Mislead: Measuring Policy Signal in Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents cites this paper.

When Retrieval Metrics Mislead: Measuring Policy Signal in Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 19

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Observation 7cbb30f9-6e33-4599-8211-fc5229f886a2 · inbound

Auto-DSM Under the Lens: A Black-Box Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based DSM Generation cites this paper.

Auto-DSM Under the Lens: A Black-Box Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based DSM Generation Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 22

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-07-08T19:55:33.962308Z

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