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Knowing What Not to Answer: Selective Non-Compliance in Vision-Language Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language models (VLMs) are expected to respond helpfully to appropriate requests while withholding compliance with requests that are incorrect, unsafe, infeasible, or unanswerable. However, existing benchmarks predominantly evaluate non-compliance at the level of the query as a whole, assuming that each request either warrants compliance or requires withholding compliance. In practice, real-world queries can contain a mixture of answerable content and components for which compliance should be withheld. In this paper, we introduce KoNA, a benchmark for evaluating selective non-compliance

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