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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

In this paper, we establish a benchmark named HalluQA (Chinese Hallucination Question-Answering) to measure the hallucination phenomenon in Chinese large language models. HalluQA contains 450 meticulously designed adversarial questions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qinyuan Cheng , Tianxiang Sun , Wenwei Zhang , Siyin Wang , Xiangyang Liu , Mozhi Zhang , Junliang He , Mianqiu Huang , Zhangyue Yin , Kai Chen , Xipeng Qiu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multilingual applications but often generate plausible yet incorrect or misleading outputs, known as hallucinations. While hallucination detection has been studied extensively in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hrishikesh Terdalkar , Kirtan Bhojani , Aryan Dongare , Omm Aditya Behera

Do large language models (LLMs) know the law? These models are increasingly being used to augment legal practice, education, and research, yet their revolutionary potential is threatened by the presence of hallucinations -- textual output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Matthew Dahl , Varun Magesh , Mirac Suzgun , Daniel E. Ho

This research paper focuses on the challenges posed by hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of the medical domain. Hallucination, wherein these models generate plausible yet unverified or incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ankit Pal , Logesh Kumar Umapathi , Malaikannan Sankarasubbu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising potentials in program generation and no-code automation. However, LLMs are prone to generate hallucinations, i.e., they generate text which sounds plausible but is incorrect. Although there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Vibhor Agarwal , Yulong Pei , Salwa Alamir , Xiaomo Liu

Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) refers to the generation of content that is not faithful to the input or the real-world facts. This paper provides a rigorous treatment of hallucination in LLMs, including formal definitions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Esmail Gumaan

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), defined as the generation of content inconsistent with facts or context, represent a core obstacle to their reliable deployment in critical domains. Current research primarily focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yanyi Liu , Qingwen Yang , Tiezheng Guo , Feiyu Qu , Jun Liu , Yingyou Wen

Following the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), expanding their boundaries to new modalities represents a significant paradigm shift in multimodal understanding. Human perception is inherently multimodal, relying not only on text but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kim Sung-Bin , Oh Hyun-Bin , JungMok Lee , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung , Tae-Hyun Oh

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as alternatives to traditional search engines given their capacity to generate text that resembles human language. However, this shift is concerning, as LLMs often generate hallucinations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Cléa Chataigner , Afaf Taïk , Golnoosh Farnadi

Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate non-factual content, known as hallucinations. Existing retrieval-augmented-based hallucination detection approaches typically address this by framing it as a classification task, evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Binjie Wang , Steffi Chern , Ethan Chern , Pengfei Liu

Hallucination has been a major problem for large language models and remains a critical challenge when it comes to multimodality in which vision-language models (VLMs) have to deal with not just textual but also visual inputs. Despite rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhecan Wang , Garrett Bingham , Adams Yu , Quoc Le , Thang Luong , Golnaz Ghiasi

Concerns regarding the propensity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce inaccurate outputs, also known as hallucinations, have escalated. Detecting them is vital for ensuring the reliability of applications relying on LLM-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Ernesto Quevedo , Jorge Yero , Rachel Koerner , Pablo Rivas , Tomas Cerny

Medical large language models (LLMs), including custom medical GPTs (MedGPTs) and open-source models, are increasingly deployed on web platforms to provide clinical guidance. However, they pose risks of hallucination, policy noncompliance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin , Muhammad Ikram , Rahat Masood

Large-scale multilingual machine translation systems have demonstrated remarkable ability to translate directly between numerous languages, making them increasingly appealing for real-world applications. However, when deployed in the wild,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Nuno M. Guerreiro , Duarte Alves , Jonas Waldendorf , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch , Pierre Colombo , André F. T. Martins

Hallucination detection is a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), and existing studies heavily rely on powerful closed-source LLMs such as GPT-4. In this paper, we propose an autonomous LLM-based agent framework, called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xiaoxue Cheng , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongzhi Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in sensitive domains such as medicine and law, hallucination detection has become a critical task. Although numerous benchmarks have been proposed to advance research in this area,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yujie Ren , Niklas Gruhlke , Anne Lauscher

Despite their success, large language models (LLMs) face the critical challenge of hallucinations, generating plausible but incorrect content. While much research has focused on hallucinations in multiple modalities including images and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nan Jiang , Qi Li , Lin Tan , Tianyi Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown their ability to collaborate effectively with humans in real-world scenarios. However, LLMs are apt to generate hallucinations, i.e., makeup incorrect text and unverified information, which can cause…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shiping Yang , Renliang Sun , Xiaojun Wan

Single document news summarization has seen substantial progress on faithfulness in recent years, driven by research on the evaluation of factual consistency, or hallucinations. We ask whether these advances carry over to other text…