Chain-of-Self-Questioning: How Agents Decide When to Abstain Instead of Hallucinate
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Every agent builder hits the same production wall: your LLM answers confidently when it should refuse. In financial workflows, a wrong answer costs money. A refusal costs time. Chain-of-Self-Questioning (CoSQ) is a prompt-only framework that makes answer commitment conditional on an explicit inform…
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- 2026-09-16 10:07 · DEV Community — AI
Chain-of-Self-Questioning: How Agents Decide When to Abstain Instead of Hallucinate