Honesty over Accuracy: Trustworthy Language Models through Reinforced Hesitation

arXiv:2511.11500 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-11-14 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-11-14

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Abstention — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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