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Don't Let Me Ask for It: LLMs Show Deficiencies in Active Multi-Turn Information Acquisition for Abductive Inference

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Don't Let Me Ask for It: LLMs Show Deficiencies in Active Multi-Turn Information Acquisition for Abductive Inference A Survey of Large Language Models for Code: Evolution, Benchmarking, and Future Trends

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Don't Let Me Ask for It: LLMs Show Deficiencies in Active Multi-Turn Information Acquisition for Abductive Inference Congchi Yin, Tianyi Wu, Yankai Shu, Alex Gu, Yun- han Wang, Jun Shao, Xun Jiang, and Piji Li

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