abstention
/əbˈstenʃən/
a deliberate refusal to answer when evidence, authorization, or capability is insufficient
abstention in a sentence
“The classifier used abstention when no label was supported strongly enough.”
Origin of abstention
Latin abstinere to hold back
Related Words
stop condition
a rule that ends generation or an agent loop once a stated state is reached
output contract
an explicit agreement about the fields, format, rules, and failure behavior of a response
output schema
a formal description of a data structure, including its fields, types, and allowed values
structured output
a response produced in a predictable machine-readable shape, often constrained by a schema
response verbosity
the amount of detail and explanation in a response
reading level
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