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Despite significant progress in the quality of language generated from abstractive summarization models, these models still exhibit the tendency to hallucinate, i.e., output content not supported by the source document. A number of works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liam van der Poel , Ryan Cotterell , Clara Meister

Hallucination refers to the inaccurate, irrelevant, and inconsistent text generated from large language models (LLMs). While the LLMs have shown great promise in a variety of tasks, the issue of hallucination still remains a major challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Junhyun Lee , Harshith Goka , Hyeonmok Ko

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations, where generated responses seem semantically plausible yet exhibit little or no relevance to the input image. Previous studies reveal that this issue primarily stems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hao Fang , Changle Zhou , Jiawei Kong , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Hallucination is a well-known phenomenon in text generated by large language models (LLMs). The existence of hallucinatory responses is found in almost all application scenarios e.g., summarization, question-answering (QA) etc. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mobashir Sadat , Zhengyu Zhou , Lukas Lange , Jun Araki , Arsalan Gundroo , Bingqing Wang , Rakesh R Menon , Md Rizwan Parvez , Zhe Feng

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

Abstractive summarization aims at generating natural language summaries of a source document that are succinct while preserving the important elements. Despite recent advances, neural text summarization models are known to be susceptible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Zhenzhen Liu , Chao Wan , Varsha Kishore , Jin Peng Zhou , Minmin Chen , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Large Language Models work quite well with general-purpose data and many tasks in Natural Language Processing. However, they show several limitations when used for a task such as domain-specific abstractive text summarization. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anum Afzal , Juraj Vladika , Daniel Braun , Florian Matthes

It is well known that the standard likelihood training and approximate decoding objectives in neural text generation models lead to less human-like responses for open-ended tasks such as language modeling and story generation. In this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Joshua Maynez , Shashi Narayan , Bernd Bohnet , Ryan McDonald

State-of-the-art abstractive summarization systems often generate \emph{hallucinations}; i.e., content that is not directly inferable from the source text. Despite being assumed incorrect, we find that much hallucinated content is factual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Meng Cao , Yue Dong , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Hallucinations in text generation occur when the system produces text that is not grounded in the input. In this work, we tackle the problem of hallucinations in neural chart summarization. Our analysis shows that the target side of chart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Saad Obaid ul Islam , Iza Škrjanec , Ondřej Dušek , Vera Demberg

Despite recent advances in abstractive summarization, current summarization systems still suffer from content hallucinations where models generate text that is either irrelevant or contradictory to the source document. However, prior work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yue Dong , John Wieting , Pat Verga

Hallucination of text ungrounded in the input is a well-known problem in neural data-to-text generation. Many methods have been proposed to mitigate it, but they typically require altering model architecture or collecting additional data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Mateusz Lango , Ondřej Dušek

It is well-known that abstractive summaries are subject to hallucination---including material that is not supported by the original text. While summaries can be made hallucination-free by limiting them to general phrases, such summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Zheng Zhao , Shay B. Cohen , Bonnie Webber

Abstractive summarization systems today produce fluent and relevant output, but often "hallucinate" statements not supported by the source text. We analyze the connection between hallucinations and training data, and find evidence that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Daniel King , Zejiang Shen , Nishant Subramani , Daniel S. Weld , Iz Beltagy , Doug Downey

A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Feng Nan , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiguo Wang , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Bing Xiang

Despite improvements in performances on different natural language generation tasks, deep neural models are prone to hallucinating facts that are incorrect or nonexistent. Different hypotheses are proposed and examined separately for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yijun Xiao , William Yang Wang

Despite significant progress in neural abstractive summarization, recent studies have shown that the current models are prone to generating summaries that are unfaithful to the original context. To address the issue, we study contrast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sihao Chen , Fan Zhang , Kazoo Sone , Dan Roth

We address the problem of unsupervised abstractive summarization of collections of user generated reviews with self-supervision and control. We propose a self-supervised setup that considers an individual document as a target summary for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hady Elsahar , Maximin Coavoux , Matthias Gallé , Jos Rozen

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

One of the most challenging aspects of current single-document news summarization is that the summary often contains 'extrinsic hallucinations', i.e., facts that are not present in the source document, which are often derived via world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Xinnuo Xu , Ondřej Dušek , Shashi Narayan , Verena Rieser , Ioannis Konstas
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