@inproceedings{ling-etal-2026-llm,
    title = "{LLM} Abstention Can Be a Prompt Artifact, in Addition to Genuine Uncertainty",
    author = "Ling, Zipeng  and
      Liu, Shuliang  and
      Tang, Yuehao  and
      Yang, Junqi  and
      Fu, Shenghong  and
      Son, Seonil  and
      Huang, Chen  and
      Huang, Kejia  and
      Wan, Yao  and
      Hou, Zhichao  and
      Hu, Xuming",
    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.549/",
    pages = "12612--12633",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}