Language Models (Mostly) Know When to Stop Reading

Ruixi Xie, Jiacheng Wang, Petru Rosu, Chunyang Deng, Bolun Sun, Zining Lin, Bhuwan Dhingra

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)

This paper investigates when language models can determine they have gathered sufficient information to answer a question, demonstrating their ability to adaptively stop reading.