Faithful LLMs Must Adapt Their Responses When Context Changes

PFaithBench tests whether models answer a question with supporting evidence but abstain when evidence for the same question is removed.

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Zizhuo Zhang · Xiong Peng · Jingwei Sun · Rong Yao · Borui Jiang · Bo Han

Hong Kong Baptist University · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

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Zhang et al.

The authors introduce the Pairwise Faithfulness Benchmark, or PFaithBench.

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From Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab and Hong Kong Baptist University

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LLMs are biased toward answering rather than abstaining when context is insufficient, and training data composition drives the answering-abstaining tradeoff.

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