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I-CALM: Incentivizing Confidence-Aware Abstention for LLM Hallucination Mitigation

I-CALM encourages LLMs to abstain on low-confidence queries rather than hallucinate, improving reliability through confidence-aware training incentives.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)BY sys://pipeline

I-CALM proposes a method to reduce LLM hallucinations through confidence-aware abstention incentives. The approach encourages models to decline answering when confidence is low rather than generating plausible but incorrect outputs.

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