3 papers
cs.CL2026
Twin Worlds: Equivariance-Based Abstention for Evidence-Grounded Reasoning
Vy Nguyen, Ziqi Xu, Jeffrey Chan +5
Knowledge-intensive reasoning requires Large Language Models (LLMs) to ground answers in provided evidence. When evidence is insufficient, it is desirable that models abstain rathe…
cs.IR2026
The "Curse of Knowledge" in LLM Query Simulation: Concept Provenance for Tracing Answer-Side Intrusion
Chenglong Ma, Xinye Wanyan, Danula Hettiachchi +2
LLM-generated search queries are widely used to augment IR evaluation, yet they may contain concepts that presuppose answer-side document knowledge, violating the information-acces…
cs.CL2025
Hallucinate Less by Thinking More: Aspect-Based Causal Abstention for Large Language Models
Vy Nguyen, Ziqi Xu, Jeffrey Chan +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce fluent but factually incorrect responses, a phenomenon known as hallucination. Abstention, where the model chooses not to answer and inst…