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Knowing When Not to Answer: Abstention and Refusal Reasoning in Vision--Language Models

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arXiv:2609.05540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many medical conditions require diagnosis through detailed, multi-context clinical assessment rather than from visual appearance alone. Despite this, vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly queried to interpret images in ways that touch on medi…

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  1. 2026-09-09 04:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    Knowing When Not to Answer: Abstention and Refusal Reasoning in Vision--Language Models

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