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Large Language ModelsTHE DECODERPublished: Apr 11, 2026, 19:00 JST

New research reveals that AI models overwhelmingly prefer to guess rather than request missing information, but reinforcement learning offers a potential solution.

New research reveals that AI models overwhelmingly prefer to guess rather than request missing information, but reinforcement learning offers a potential solution.

ProactiveBench testing framework evaluated 22 multimodal language models on their ability to ask for help when visual information is unavailable

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