Papers by Maor Juliet Lavi
Detecting (Un)answerability in Large Language Models with Linear Directions (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) often respond confidently to questions even when they lack the necessary information, leading to inaccurate responses or hallucinations. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach for identifying a direction in the model’s activation space that captures unanswerability and uses it for classification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method detects unanswerable questions and generalizes better across datasets than existing prompt-based and classifier-based approaches. |