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pith:2024:LJNLCYJGBDGVHYNMC75CACBHWD

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

Masoud Hashemi, Nishanth Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Vikas Yadav

arxiv:2407.16221 v2 · 2024-07-23 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:10:48.992157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

5a5ab1612608cd53e1ac17fa200827b0ed8fa8f801d97a9fe8045d1d0dbe42c3

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arxiv: 2407.16221 · arxiv_version: 2407.16221v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.16221 · pith_short_12: LJNLCYJGBDGV · pith_short_16: LJNLCYJGBDGVHYNM · pith_short_8: LJNLCYJG

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LJNLCYJGBDGVHYNMC75CACBHWD \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5a5ab1612608cd53e1ac17fa200827b0ed8fa8f801d97a9fe8045d1d0dbe42c3

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-23T06:56:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "175b6e7345324165af029bea5ffa6bbe751d4d77d6ac871c5f1fa5c2863937a7"
  },
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