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

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Main Authors:	Wen, Bingbing, Yao, Jihan, Feng, Shangbin, Xu, Chenjun, Tsvetkov, Yulia, Howe, Bill, Wang, Lucy Lu
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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