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New CoSQ framework helps AI agents avoid hallucinations by abstaining

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A new prompt-only framework called Chain-of-Self-Questioning (CoSQ) has been developed to help AI agents decide when to abstain from answering questions rather than hallucinate. CoSQ embeds an information-sufficiency check directly into the agent's prompt, allowing it to evaluate its own knowledge before committing to a response. This approach aims to reduce costly incorrect answers in sensitive applications like finance without requiring model retraining or external verification tools. The framework offers three variants—Grounded-CoSQ, Critical-CoSQ, and Adaptive-CoSQ—each with different trade-offs between answer coverage and accuracy, controlled by a configurable confidence threshold. AI

IMPACT Enhances reliability of AI agents by enabling conditional answering, potentially reducing costly errors in production environments.

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New CoSQ framework helps AI agents avoid hallucinations by abstaining

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · mech.app ·

    Chain-of-Self-Questioning: How Agents Decide When to Abstain Instead of Hallucinate

    <p>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…

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