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Recent neural approaches to data-to-text generation have mostly focused on improving content fidelity while lacking explicit control over writing styles (e.g., word choices, sentence structures). More traditional systems use templates to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shuai Lin , Wentao Wang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Frank F. Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu

Object hallucination is a significant challenge that hinders the application of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in practice. We hypothesize that one possible origin of hallucination is the model's tendency to prioritize text generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Meng Shen , Minghao Wu , Deepu Rajan

Hallucination in generative AI is often treated as a technical failure to produce factually correct output. Yet this framing underrepresents the broader significance of hallucinated content in language models, which may appear fluent,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zihao Li , Weiwei Yi , Jiahong Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved a degree of success in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, yet they remain prone to a significant challenge known as hallucination: producing information that is not substantiated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ray Li , Tanishka Bagade , Kevin Martinez , Flora Yasmin , Grant Ayala , Michael Lam , Kevin Zhu

The reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, law, and scientific discovery is often compromised by hallucinations. These failures typically stem from two sources: data-driven hallucinations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinyue Zeng , Junhong Lin , Yujun Yan , Feng Guo , Liang Shi , Jun Wu , Dawei Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel controllable text-to-image generative adversarial network (ControlGAN), which can effectively synthesise high-quality images and also control parts of the image generation according to natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Philip H. S. Torr

Score-based diffusion models have achieved incredible performance in generating realistic images, audio, and video data. While these models produce high-quality samples with impressive details, they often introduce unrealistic artifacts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Rui Lu , Runzhe Wang , Kaifeng Lyu , Xitai Jiang , Gao Huang , Mengdi Wang

Empowered by the large-scale pretrained language models, existing dialogue systems have demonstrated impressive performance conducting fluent and natural-sounding conversations. However, they are still plagued by the hallucination problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jifan Yu , Xiaohan Zhang , Yifan Xu , Xuanyu Lei , Zijun Yao , Jing Zhang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Video-grounded Dialogue (VGD) aims to decode an answer sentence to a question regarding a given video and dialogue context. Despite the recent success of multi-modal reasoning to generate answer sentences, existing dialogue systems still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sunjae Yoon , Eunseop Yoon , Hee Suk Yoon , Junyeong Kim , Chang D. Yoo

Diffusion language models (D-LLMs) offer parallel denoising and bidirectional context, but hallucination detection for D-LLMs remains underexplored. Prior detectors developed for auto-regressive LLMs typically rely on single-pass cues and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Arshia Hemmat , Philip Torr , Yongqiang Chen , Junchi Yu

Language models have shown strong capabilities across a wide range of tasks in software engineering, such as code generation, yet they suffer from hallucinations. While hallucinations have been studied independently in natural language and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Chunhua Liu , Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Recently developed large language models have achieved remarkable success in generating fluent and coherent text. However, these models often tend to 'hallucinate' which critically hampers their reliability. In this work, we address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Neeraj Varshney , Wenlin Yao , Hongming Zhang , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu

Trustworthiness of generative language models (GLMs) is crucial in their deployment to critical decision making systems. Hence, certified risk control methods such as selective prediction and conformal prediction have been applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Minjae Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Taesoo Kim , Sangdon Park

Despite remarkable progress in image quality and prompt fidelity, text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models continue to exhibit persistent "hallucinations", where generated content subtly or significantly diverges from the intended prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jianjiang Yang , Ziyan Huang , Yanshu li , Da Peng , Huaiyuan Yao

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for generative and knowledge-intensive tasks including question-answering (QA) tasks. However, the practical deployment still faces challenges, notably the issue of "hallucination", where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ziwei Ji , Tiezheng Yu , Yan Xu , Nayeon Lee , Etsuko Ishii , Pascale Fung

Recent approaches to data-to-text generation have adopted the very successful encoder-decoder architecture or variants thereof. These models generate text which is fluent (but often imprecise) and perform quite poorly at selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Ratish Puduppully , Mirella Lapata

In language and vision-language models, hallucination is broadly understood as content generated from a model's prior knowledge or biases rather than from the given input. While this phenomenon has been studied in those domains, it has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seyed Amir Kasaei , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating fluent yet factually incorrect text-a phenomenon known as hallucinations, undermining their reliability and utility in downstream tasks. We hypothesize that a generated text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Koduvayur Subbalakshmi , Sabbir Hossain Ujjal , Venkata Krishna Teja Mangichetty , Nastaran Jamalipour Soofi

The increasing reliance on natural language generation (NLG) models, particularly large language models, has raised concerns about the reliability and accuracy of their outputs. A key challenge is hallucination, where models produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fan Xu , Xinyu Hu , Zhenghan Yu , Li Lin , Xu Zhang , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhou , Jinjie Gu , Xiaojun Wan

This paper investigates how hallucination rates in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be controlled via a symbolic data generation framework, exploring a fundamental relationship between the rate of certain mathematical errors and types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jordan Meadows , Marco Valentino , Andre Freitas