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New Method 'Dr. No' Teaches Vision-Language Models to Abstain When Evidence Is Insufficient

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A new arXiv paper introduces Dr. No, a feature steering technique that lets large vision-language models abstain from answering when visual or textual evidence is insufficient for a reliable conclusion.

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  1. 2026-11-04 05:00 · arXiv cs.LG
    Dr. No: Feature Steering for Abstention in Vision-Language Models

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