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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models

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This paper cites Figure 14:Prompt used for Evaluation:(a) Evaluation prompt for answerable dataset, and (b) Evaluation prompt for our unanswerable dataset.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Figure 14:Prompt used for Evaluation:(a) Evaluation prompt for answerable dataset, and (b) Evaluation prompt for our unanswerable dataset

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This paper cites A.3 ETHICSSTATEMENT In our study, we utilize Large Language Models (LLM) to generate our UVQA dataset and evaluate video-LLMs, which may result in unintended outcomes.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models A.3 ETHICSSTATEMENT In our study, we utilize Large Language Models (LLM) to generate our UVQA dataset and evaluate video-LLMs, which may result in unintended outcomes

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites UNK-VQA: A Dataset and a Probe into the Abstention Ability of Multi-modal Large Models.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models UNK-VQA: A Dataset and a Probe into the Abstention Ability of Multi-modal Large Models

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models URL https://aclanthology

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This paper cites Language Models Can See: Plugging Visual Controls in Text Generation.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Language Models Can See: Plugging Visual Controls in Text Generation

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Aligning Large Multimodal Models with Factually Augmented RLHF

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

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This paper cites Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models

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This paper cites Reliable visual question answering: Abstain rather than answer incorrectly.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Reliable visual question answering: Abstain rather than answer incorrectly

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This paper cites TLCR: Token-level continuous reward for fine-grained reinforcement learning from human feedback.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models TLCR: Token-level continuous reward for fine-grained reinforcement learning from human feedback

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This paper cites doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.280.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.280

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This paper cites doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.797.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.797

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This paper cites LLaVA-Video: Video Instruction Tuning With Synthetic Data.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models LLaVA-Video: Video Instruction Tuning With Synthetic Data

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models (2023); Li et al

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This paper cites If the question cannot be answered using the video content, state that it is unanswerable and provide a reason.

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models If the question cannot be answered using the video content, state that it is unanswerable and provide a reason

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models 5All annotators have TOEFL iBT scores above 100 and hold at least a bachelor’s degree

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Justin Johnson, Ranjay Krishna, Michael Stark, Li-Jia Li, David A

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Sicong Leng, Hang Zhang, Guanzheng Chen, Xin Li, Shijian Lu, Chunyan Miao, and Lidong Bing

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Alignment for Honesty

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Mapping Images to Scene Graphs with Permutation-Invariant Structured Prediction

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models Video-LLaMA: An instruction-tuned audio-visual language model for video understanding

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models doi: 10.18653/v1/2023

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Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models PaLM 2 Technical Report

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