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Despite showing increasingly human-like abilities, large language models (LLMs) often struggle with factual inaccuracies, i.e. "hallucinations", even when they hold relevant knowledge. To address these hallucinations, current approaches…

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Faithfulness hallucinations are claims generated by a Large Language Model (LLM) not supported by contexts provided to the LLM. Lacking assessment standards, existing benchmarks focus on "factual statements" that rephrase source materials…

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The advent of large language models (LLMs) has facilitated the development of natural language text generation. It also poses unprecedented challenges, with content hallucination emerging as a significant concern. Existing solutions often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xiaoxi Sun , Jinpeng Li , Yan Zhong , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in natural language processing (NLP), fueling a paradigm shift in information acquisition. Nevertheless, LLMs are prone to hallucination, generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lei Huang , Weijiang Yu , Weitao Ma , Weihong Zhong , Zhangyin Feng , Haotian Wang , Qianglong Chen , Weihua Peng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Despite achieving outstanding performance on various cross-modal tasks, current large vision-language models (LVLMs) still suffer from hallucination issues, manifesting as inconsistencies between their generated responses and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Rui Hu , Yahan Tu , Shuyu Wei , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at generating highly detailed captions but often produce hallucinations. Our analysis reveals that existing hallucination detection methods struggle with detailed captions. We attribute this to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saehyung Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Jing Shi , Sungroh Yoon

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet their tendency to hallucinate poses serious challenges for reliable deployment. Despite numerous hallucination detection methods, their evaluations often rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Denis Janiak , Jakub Binkowski , Albert Sawczyn , Bogdan Gabrys , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Despite their significant advancements, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often generate factually inaccurate information, referred to as hallucination. In this work, we address object hallucinations in MLLMs, where information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pritam Sarkar , Sayna Ebrahimi , Ali Etemad , Ahmad Beirami , Sercan Ö. Arık , Tomas Pfister

Hallucination, i.e., generating factually incorrect content, remains a critical challenge for large language models (LLMs). We introduce TOHA, a TOpology-based HAllucination detector in the RAG setting, which leverages a topological…

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques aim to mitigate hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, LLMs can still produce information that is unsupported or contradictory to the retrieved contexts. We introduce LYNX, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Selvan Sunitha Ravi , Bartosz Mielczarek , Anand Kannappan , Douwe Kiela , Rebecca Qian

The rapid development of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often comes with widespread hallucination issues, making cost-effective and comprehensive assessments increasingly vital. Current approaches mainly rely on costly annotations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bowen Yan , Zhengsong Zhang , Liqiang Jing , Eftekhar Hossain , Xinya Du

Hallucination is a key roadblock for applications of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for enterprise applications that are sensitive to information accuracy. To address this issue, two general approaches have been explored:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxi Chen , Li Wang , Wei Wu , Qi Tang , Yiyao Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown propensity to generate hallucinated outputs, i.e., texts that are factually incorrect or unsupported. Existing methods for alleviating hallucinations typically require costly human annotations to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yu Xia , Xu Liu , Tong Yu , Sungchul Kim , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai , Shuai Li

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant progress in integrating visual and textual inputs for multimodal reasoning. However, a recurring challenge is ensuring these models utilize visual information as effectively as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Tiep Le , Man Luo , Shachar Rosenman , Sayak Paul , Shao-Yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) refer to the phenomenon of LLMs producing responses that are coherent yet factually inaccurate. This issue undermines the effectiveness of LLMs in practical applications, necessitating research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Weihang Su , Changyue Wang , Qingyao Ai , Yiran HU , Zhijing Wu , Yujia Zhou , Yiqun Liu

Large Language models (LLMs) show extraordinary abilities, but they are still prone to hallucinations, especially when we use them for generating Academic content. We have investigated four popular LLMs, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Copilot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Humam Khan , Md Tabrez Nafis , Shahab Saquib Sohail , Aqeel Khalique , Rehan Hasan Khan

Large language models (LLMs) are prone to three types of hallucination: Input-Conflicting, Context-Conflicting and Fact-Conflicting hallucinations. The purpose of this study is to mitigate the different types of hallucination by exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ao Jia , Haiming Wu , Guohui Yao , Dawei Song , Songkun Ji , Yazhou Zhang

The hallucination issue is recognized as a fundamental deficiency of large language models (LLMs), especially when applied to fields such as finance, education, and law. Despite the growing concerns, there has been a lack of empirical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Haoqiang Kang , Xiao-Yang Liu

In the era of large language models (LLMs), hallucination (i.e., the tendency to generate factually incorrect content) poses great challenge to trustworthy and reliable deployment of LLMs in real-world applications. To tackle the LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Junyi Li , Jie Chen , Ruiyang Ren , Xiaoxue Cheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, e.g., factually incorrect information, in their responses. These hallucinations present challenges for LLM-based applications that demand high factual accuracy. Existing…

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