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Hallucination is often viewed as a direct consequence of missing knowledge: a model answers incorrectly when the correct answer is absent from its generation-time distribution, and correctly when it is present. We test this assumption by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jewon Yeom , Jaewon Sok , Heejun Kim , Seonghyeon Park , Jeongjae Park , Taesup Kim

Existing hallucination detection methods for large language models (LLMs) rely on external verification at inference time, requiring gold answers, retrieval systems, or auxiliary judge models. We ask whether this external supervision can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shoaib Sadiq Salehmohamed , Jinal Prashant Thakkar , Hansika Aredla , Shaik Mohammed Omar , Shalmali Ayachit

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent natural language texts when given relevant documents as background context. This ability has attracted considerable interest in developing industry applications of LLMs. However, LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Deren Lei , Yaxi Li , Mengya Hu , Mingyu Wang , Vincent Yun , Emily Ching , Eslam Kamal

We design probes trained on the internal representations of a transformer language model to predict its hallucinatory behavior on three grounded generation tasks. To train the probes, we annotate for span-level hallucination on both sampled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sky CH-Wang , Benjamin Van Durme , Jason Eisner , Chris Kedzie

Computer methods in medical devices are frequently imperfect and are known to produce errors in clinical or diagnostic tasks. However, when deep learning and data-based approaches yield output that exhibit errors, the devices are frequently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Jason Granstedt , Prabhat Kc , Rucha Deshpande , Victor Garcia , Aldo Badano

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent responses, but sometimes hallucinate facts. In this paper, we investigate whether LLMs can detect their own hallucinations. We formulate hallucination detection as a classification task of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sora Kadotani , Kosuke Nishida , Kyosuke Nishida

Neural text generation (data- or text-to-text) demonstrates remarkable performance when training data is abundant which for many applications is not the case. To collect a large corpus of parallel data, heuristic rules are often used but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Katja Filippova

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability of large vision-language models, making their detection essential for ensuring accuracy in critical applications. Current detection methods often rely on computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Eunkyu Park , Minyeong Kim , Gunhee Kim

Despite substantial advances, large language models (LLMs) continue to exhibit hallucinations, generating plausible yet incorrect responses. In this paper, we highlight a critical yet previously underexplored class of hallucinations driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shaowen Wang , Yiqi Dong , Ruinian Chang , Tansheng Zhu , Yuebo Sun , Kaifeng Lyu , Jian Li

This paper primarily focuses on the hallucinations caused due to AI language models(LLMs).LLMs have shown extraordinary Language understanding and generation capabilities .Still it has major a disadvantage hallucinations which give outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sailesh kiran kurra , Shiek Ruksana , Vishal Borusu

Recent advancements in massively multilingual machine translation systems have significantly enhanced translation accuracy; however, even the best performing systems still generate hallucinations, severely impacting user trust. Detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kenza Benkirane , Laura Gongas , Shahar Pelles , Naomi Fuchs , Joshua Darmon , Pontus Stenetorp , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Eduardo Sánchez

Hallucination in text summarization refers to the phenomenon where the model generates information that is not supported by the input source document. Hallucination poses significant obstacles to the accuracy and reliability of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tohida Rehman , Ronit Mandal , Abhishek Agarwal , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal tasks like visual question answering or image captioning. However, inconsistencies between the visual information and the generated text, a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Laura Fieback , Jakob Spiegelberg , Hanno Gottschalk

Hallucinations in machine translation are translations that contain information completely unrelated to the input. Omissions are translations that do not include some of the input information. While both cases tend to be catastrophic errors…

Detecting hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental challenge for their trustworthy deployment. Going beyond basic uncertainty-driven hallucination detection frameworks, we propose a simple yet powerful method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Rui Wang , Zeming Wei , Guanzhang Yue , Meng Sun

While large language models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of tasks, they remain susceptible to hallucinations -- generating plausible yet factually incorrect contents. Existing methods to mitigating such risk…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yurui Chang , Bochuan Cao , Lu Lin

As Large Language Models become more ubiquitous across domains, it becomes important to examine their inherent limitations critically. This work argues that hallucinations in language models are not just occasional errors but an inevitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-10 Sourav Banerjee , Ayushi Agarwal , Saloni Singla

Large language models frequently exhibit hallucinations: fluent and confident outputs that are factually incorrect or unsupported by the input context. While recent hallucination detection methods have explored various features derived from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jakub Binkowski , Kamil Adamczewski , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Large language models (LLMs) hallucinate: they produce fluent outputs that are factually incorrect. We present a geometric dynamical systems framework in which hallucinations arise from task-dependent basin structure in latent space. Using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kalyan Cherukuri , Lav R. Varshney

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in automating code generation tasks offering new opportunities across software engineering domains. However, their practical application remains limited due to hallucinations -…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Marc Pavel , Nenad Petrovic , Lukasz Mazur , Vahid Zolfaghari , Fengjunjie Pan , Alois Knoll