Abstention is all you need
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Abstract
Despite their outstanding performance across various NLP tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) still produce incorrect answers, which can be harmful in safety-critical domains like medicine and autonomous driving. To address this issue, selective prediction systems aim to reject predictions from LLMs that are likely to be incorrect. However, current approaches either rely on querying the LLM multiple times, requiring access to its internals, or fine-Tuning it. Given the significant operational costs of an LLM, we propose a selective prediction system that does not involve the LLM during inference. We conduct an extensive experimental study regarding training data sizes, time consumption, utilized models, and embeddings, improving on the current state-of-The-Art while treating the LLM as a black box, without accessing its internals or requiring fine-Tuning.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2025 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2025 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 979-8-3315-1179-1 |
| ISBN (print) | 979-8-3315-1180-7 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) |
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Conference
| Title | 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics |
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| Abbreviated title | DSAA 2025 |
| Conference number | 12 |
| Duration | 9 - 12 October 2025 |
| Website | |
| Location | Edgbaston Park Hotel |
| City | Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-8107-2775/work/219265701 |
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Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Keywords
- learning with abstention, learning with rejection, selective prediction