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Hallucinations pose a significant obstacle to the reliability and widespread adoption of language models, yet their accurate measurement remains a persistent challenge. While many task- and domain-specific metrics have been proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Atharva Kulkarni , Yuan Zhang , Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , Xiou Ge , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Dhivya Piraviperumal , Swabha Swayamdipta , Hong Yu

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are prone to generate hallucinations, i.e., content that conflicts with the source or cannot be verified by the factual knowledge. To understand what types of content and to which extent LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Junyi Li , Xiaoxue Cheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent work has demonstrated state-of-the-art results in large language model (LLM) hallucination detection and mitigation through consistency-based approaches which involve aggregating multiple responses sampled from a single LLM for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Demian Till , John Smeaton , Peter Haubrick , Gouse Saheb , Florian Graef , David Berman

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance on visual reasoning tasks but remain highly susceptible to hallucination. Existing detection methods predominantly rely on coarse, whole-image measures of how an object token…

Despite their impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remain prone to hallucination. In this study, we propose a comprehensive intervention framework aligned with the transformer's causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiaye Qian , Ge Zheng , Yuchen Zhu , Sibei Yang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promising improvements, often surpassing existing methods across a wide range of downstream tasks in natural language processing. However, these models still face challenges, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Sujeong Lee , Hayoung Lee , Seongsoo Heo , Wonik Choi

The issue of hallucinations is a prevalent concern in existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Previous efforts have primarily focused on investigating object hallucinations, which can be easily alleviated by introducing object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mingrui Wu , Jiayi Ji , Oucheng Huang , Jiale Li , Yuhang Wu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Fusing visual understanding into language generation, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are revolutionizing visual-language applications. Yet, these models are often plagued by the hallucination problem, which involves generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yining Wang , Mi Zhang , Junjie Sun , Chenyue Wang , Min Yang , Hui Xue , Jialing Tao , Ranjie Duan , Jiexi Liu

Contemporary Language Models (LMs), while impressively fluent, often generate content that is factually incorrect or unfaithful to the input context - a critical issue commonly referred to as 'hallucination'. This tendency of LMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Anwoy Chatterjee , Yash Goel , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hallucinate, resulting in an emerging topic of visual hallucination evaluation (VHE). This paper contributes a ChatGPT-Prompted visual hallucination evaluation Dataset (PhD) for objective VHE at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiazhen Liu , Yuhan Fu , Ruobing Xie , Runquan Xie , Xingwu Sun , Fengzong Lian , Zhanhui Kang , Xirong Li

Multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) often suffer from hallucinations that stem not only from insufficient visual grounding but also from imbalanced allocation between perception and reasoning processes. Building upon recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haolang Lu , Bolun Chu , WeiYe Fu , Guoshun Nan , Junning Liu , Minghui Pan , Qiankun Li , Yi Yu , Hua Wang , Kun Wang

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) are commonly regarded as errors to be minimized. However, recent perspectives suggest that some hallucinations may encode creative or epistemically valuable content, a dimension that remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chengxu Yang , Jingling Yuan , Siqi Cai , Jiawei Jiang , Chuang Hu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, but remain susceptible to hallucinations, where generated text deviates from the underlying visual content. Existing hallucination detection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Feiran Zhang , Yixin Wu , Zhenghua Wang , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaoqing Zheng

Large language models are extensively applied across a wide range of tasks, such as customer support, content creation, educational tutoring, and providing financial guidance. However, a well-known drawback is their predisposition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Noa Nonkes , Sergei Agaronian , Evangelos Kanoulas , Roxana Petcu

Large-scale vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models are prone to hallucinate non-existent visual objects when generating text based on visual information. In this paper, we systematically study the object hallucination problem from three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Wenliang Dai , Zihan Liu , Ziwei Ji , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have become a key interface for visual reasoning and grounded question answering, yet they remain vulnerable to visual hallucinations, where generated responses contradict image content or mention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fanpu Cao , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu , Hui Xiong

Is automated hallucination detection possible? In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework to analyze the feasibility of automatically detecting hallucinations produced by large language models (LLMs). Inspired by the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Amin Karbasi , Omar Montasser , John Sous , Grigoris Velegkas

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs), limiting their widespread acceptance beyond chatbot applications. Despite ongoing efforts, hallucinations remain a prevalent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Cem Uluoglakci , Tugba Taskaya Temizel

Large language models are increasingly used in scientific domains, especially for molecular understanding and analysis. However, existing models are affected by hallucination issues, resulting in errors in drug design and utilization. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Hao Li , Liuzhenghao Lv , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Zhiyuan Yan , Yu Wang , Yonghong Tian , Yu Li , Li Yuan

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) - instances where models generate plausible but factually incorrect information - present a significant challenge for AI. We introduce "Ask a Local", a novel hallucination detection method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aldan Creo , Héctor Cerezo-Costas , Pedro Alonso-Doval , Maximiliano Hormazábal-Lagos