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Gated Activation Steering for Reducing Sycophancy & Hallucination in Medical Question Answering

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arXiv:2608.23666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophancy and hallucination are persistent failure modes of Large Language Models (LLMs) across domains. However, it becomes particularly consequential in clinical question answering, where responses must remain grounded in the provided context and r…

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  1. 2026-08-26 04:00 · arXiv cs.AI
    Gated Activation Steering for Reducing Sycophancy & Hallucination in Medical Question Answering

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