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A fallback instruction only works if the model actually hits the branch you wrote it for

Added "if you're not confident, say so explicitly" to a classification prompt. Felt like it should've closed the gap on low-confidence guesses. Didn't work. Model kept returning confident-sounding labels on exactly the cases I wanted it to flag as uncertain. Turned out the issue wasn't the instruct…

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  1. 2026-10-01 11:50 · r/deeplearning
    A fallback instruction only works if the model actually hits the branch you wrote it for

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