Do LLMs know when they have enough information to answer?

Published: Aug 7, 2026

We spend a lot of time developing LLMs and agents that can answer the questions we ask them. But the reverse direction gets much less attention: when the prompt does not contain enough information, can a model recognize what is missing and ask for it? [New paper] [Project website]

Zitnik Lab  ·  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Science  ·  Harvard  ·  Department of Biomedical Informatics