@inproceedings{an-xu-2026-teaching, title = "Teaching {LLM}s to Abstain via Fine-Grained Semantic Confidence Reward", author = "An, Hao and Xu, Yang", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.243/", pages = "5546--5566", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }