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pith:2024:Z5W7HJVCQ6P4NMZZYCYRC3GLEX

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Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models

Bill Howe, Bingbing Wen, Chenjun Xu, Jihan Yao, Lucy Lu Wang, Shangbin Feng, Yulia Tsvetkov

arxiv:2407.18418 v3 · 2024-07-25 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:13:02.135582Z
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Canonical hash

cf6df3a6a2879fc6b339c0b1116ccb25c6da5acf78494402db9d726c33822e16

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arxiv: 2407.18418 · arxiv_version: 2407.18418v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.18418 · pith_short_12: Z5W7HJVCQ6P4 · pith_short_16: Z5W7HJVCQ6P4NMZZ · pith_short_8: Z5W7HJVC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z5W7HJVCQ6P4NMZZYCYRC3GLEX \
  | 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: cf6df3a6a2879fc6b339c0b1116ccb25c6da5acf78494402db9d726c33822e16

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