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Recognition-Refusal Misalignment in LLMs: Why Models Answer Structurally Unanswerable Questions

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-09-01 Cached

This paper investigates why large language models answer structurally unanswerable questions, concluding that models recognize impossibility but fail to route that recognition to refusal, highlighting a routing failure rather than an encoding failure in their decision-making.

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