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In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become incredibly popular, with ChatGPT for example being used by over a billion users. While these models exhibit remarkable language understanding and logical prowess, a notable challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Elijah Berberette , Jack Hutchins , Amir Sadovnik

Large language models (LLMs) face the challenge of hallucinations -- outputs that seem coherent but are actually incorrect. A particularly damaging type is fact-conflicting hallucination (FCH), where generated content contradicts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ningke Li , Yahui Song , Kailong Wang , Yuekang Li , Ling Shi , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread adoption in various natural language processing tasks, including question answering and dialogue systems. However, a major drawback of LLMs is the issue of hallucination, where they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Qiang Fu , Yichen Yuan , Zhihao Wen , Ge Fan , Dayiheng Liu , Dongmei Zhang , Zhixu Li , Yanghua Xiao

The generation of factually incorrect objects, commonly known as object hallucination, remains a persistent challenge in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Current approaches to address this issue - ranging from expensive data-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuanzhi Xu , Qian Gao , Jun Fan , Guohui Ding , Zhenyu Yang , Sixue Lin , Yuteng Xiao

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, they suffer from hallucination problems, where models generate plausible yet incorrect answers given the input image-query pair.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiaoye Qu , Mingyang Song , Wei Wei , Jianfeng Dong , Yu Cheng

Large language models (LLMs) are highly effective in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, they are susceptible to producing unreliable conjectures in ambiguous contexts called hallucination. This paper presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yuhong Sun , Zhangyue Yin , Qipeng Guo , Jiawen Wu , Xipeng Qiu , Hui Zhao

This project develops a self correcting framework for large language models (LLMs) that detects and mitigates hallucinations during multi-step reasoning. Rather than relying solely on final answer correctness, our approach leverages fine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chelsea Zou , Yiheng Yao , Basant Khalil

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in multi-step reasoning tasks. However, alongside these successes, a more deceptive form of model error has emerged--Reasoning Hallucination--where logically coherent but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhongxiang Sun , Qipeng Wang , Haoyu Wang , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

Hallucinations are outputs by Large Language Models (LLMs) that are factually incorrect yet appear plausible [1]. This paper investigates how such hallucinations influence users' trust in LLMs and users' interaction with LLMs. To explore…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Adrian Ryser , Florian Allwein , Tim Schlippe

Language models (LMs) hallucinate. We inquire: Can we detect and mitigate hallucinations before they happen? This work answers this research question in the positive, by showing that the internal representations of LMs provide rich signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deema Alnuhait , Neeraja Kirtane , Muhammad Khalifa , Hao Peng

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet their propensity for hallucination, generating plausible but factually incorrect or fabricated content, remains a critical challenge. This report provides a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Manuel Cossio

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide variety of natural language tasks. However, they have been shown to suffer from a critical limitation pertinent to 'hallucination' in their output. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Neeraj Varshney , Satyam Raj , Venkatesh Mishra , Agneet Chatterjee , Ritika Sarkar , Amir Saeidi , Chitta Baral

Hallucinations, the tendency for large language models to provide responses with factually incorrect and unsupported claims, is a serious problem within natural language processing for which we do not yet have an effective solution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Brandon C. Colelough , Davis Bartels , Dina Demner-Fushman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced communications fields, such as Telecom Q\&A, mathematical modeling, and coding. However, LLMs encounter an inherent issue known as hallucination, i.e., generating fact-conflicting or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yinqiu Liu , Guangyuan Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Dong In Kim , Kaibin Huang , Hongyang Du

Large language models (large LMs) are susceptible to producing text that contains hallucinated content. An important instance of this problem is self-contradiction, where the LM generates two contradictory sentences within the same context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Niels Mündler , Jingxuan He , Slobodan Jenko , Martin Vechev

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention recently and demonstrate outstanding capabilities in various tasks such as OCR, VQA, captioning, $\textit{etc}$. However, hallucination remains a persistent issue.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zehao Wang , Xinpeng Liu , Yudonglin Zhang , Xiaoqian Wu , Zhou Fang , Yifan Fang , Junfu Pu , Cewu Lu , Yong-Lu Li

Language models can be persuaded to abandon factual knowledge. This vulnerability is central to AI safety, but its internal mechanism remains poorly understood. We uncover a compact causal mechanism for persuasion-induced factual errors. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiangkun Sun , Lingkai Kong , Aoqi Zhang , Liang Zeng , Tonghan Wang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) highlight their fluency in generating responses to diverse prompts. However, these models sometimes generate plausible yet incorrect ``hallucinated" facts, undermining trust. A frequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jung-Woo Shim , Yeong-Joon Ju , Ji-Hoon Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, i.e., nonsensical, unfaithful, and undesirable text. Users tend to overrely on LLMs and corresponding hallucinations which can lead to misinterpretations and errors. To tackle the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Florian Leiser , Sven Eckhardt , Valentin Leuthe , Merlin Knaeble , Alexander Maedche , Gerhard Schwabe , Ali Sunyaev

While many capabilities of language models (LMs) improve with increased training budget, the influence of scale on hallucinations is not yet fully understood. Hallucinations come in many forms, and there is no universally accepted…