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arxiv_cs_ai · Oct 30, 2026 · paper

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Confident Fools or Careful Searchers? A Behavioural Study of When LLMs Search Beyond Their Static Internal Memory

arxiv.orgOct 30, 2026
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Agentic LLM assistants must repeatedly decide whether to answer from memory or to call a tool such as web search. Unnecessary searches cost latency and money; missing ones yield confident but unsupported answers. Prio...

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Confident Fools or Careful Searchers? A Behavioural Study of When LLMs Search Beyond Their Static Internal Memory

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