MARVEL: Modular Abstention for Reliable and Versatile Expert LLMs

Jul 1, 2025ยท
Bingbing Wen
Bingbing Wen
,
Faeze Brahman
,
Zhan Su
,
Shangbin Feng
,
Yulia Tsvetkov
,
Lucy Lu Wang
,
Bill Howe
ยท 1 min read
Abstract
We present MARVEL, a modular abstention framework for building reliable and versatile expert large language models. Our approach enables models to selectively abstain from answering questions they are uncertain about, improving reliability and trustworthiness.
Type
Publication
ICML Reliable Foundation Model Workshop & NeurIPS Submission

We present MARVEL, a modular abstention framework for building reliable and versatile expert large language models. Our approach enables models to selectively abstain from answering questions they are uncertain about, improving reliability and trustworthiness in AI systems.