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Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in critical fields such as healthcare, education, and finance due to their remarkable proficiency in various language-related tasks. However, LLMs are prone to generating factually incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Muneeswaran I , Shreya Saxena , Siva Prasad , M V Sai Prakash , Advaith Shankar , Varun V , Vishal Vaddina , Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan

We propose a new paradigm to help Large Language Models (LLMs) generate more accurate factual knowledge without retrieving from an external corpus, called RECITation-augmented gEneration (RECITE). Different from retrieval-augmented language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhiqing Sun , Xuezhi Wang , Yi Tay , Yiming Yang , Denny Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant performance improvements across various cognitive tasks. An emerging application is using LLMs to enhance retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. These systems require…

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Ideally, dialogue systems should generate responses that are faithful to the knowledge contained in relevant documents. However, many models generate hallucinated responses instead that contradict it or contain unverifiable information. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nico Daheim , Nouha Dziri , Mrinmaya Sachan , Iryna Gurevych , Edoardo M. Ponti

The development of trustworthy conversational information-seeking systems relies on dialogue models that can generate faithful and accurate responses based on relevant knowledge texts. However, two main challenges hinder this task. Firstly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wanyu Du , Yangfeng Ji

Large language models (LLMs) have shown substantial capacity for generating fluent, contextually appropriate responses. However, they can produce hallucinated outputs, especially when a user query includes one or more false premises-claims…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuehan Qin , Shawn Li , Yi Nian , Xinyan Velocity Yu , Yue Zhao , Xuezhe Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various language tasks but they often generate incorrect information, a phenomenon known as "hallucinations". Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to mitigate this by using document retrieval for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Hamin Koo , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast and diverse internet corpora that often include inaccurate or misleading content. Consequently, LLMs can generate misinformation, making robust fact-checking essential. This review…

Language models often generate factually incorrect information unsupported by their training data, a phenomenon known as extrinsic hallucination. Existing mitigation approaches often degrade performance on open-ended generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tong Chen , Akari Asai , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Faeze Brahman

Reinforcement learning with evaluation metrics as rewards is widely used to enhance specific capabilities of language models. However, for tasks such as factually consistent summarisation, existing metrics remain underdeveloped, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Ye , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Edwin Simpson

Knowledge gaps and hallucinations are persistent challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs), which generate unreliable responses when lacking the necessary information to fulfill user instructions. Existing approaches, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Riccardo Pozzi , Matteo Palmonari , Andrea Coletta , Luigi Bellomarini , Jens Lehmann , Sahar Vahdati

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been extensively employed to mitigate hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods for multi-hop reasoning tasks often lack global planning, increasing the risk of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yijie Zhu , Haojie Zhou , Wanting Hong , Tailin Liu , Ning Wang

Attribution is a key concept in large language models (LLMs) as it enables control over information sources and enhances the factuality of LLMs. While existing approaches utilize open book question answering to improve attribution, factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Abdullatif Köksal , Renat Aksitov , Chung-Ching Chang

Language models are prone to hallucination - generating text that is factually incorrect. Finetuning models on high-quality factual information can potentially reduce hallucination, but concerns remain; obtaining factual gold data can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Benjamin Newman , Abhilasha Ravichander , Jaehun Jung , Rui Xin , Hamish Ivison , Yegor Kuznetsov , Pang Wei Koh , Yejin Choi

With the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in numerous applications, the challenge of factuality and the propensity for hallucinations has emerged as a significant concern. To address this issue, particularly in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yihao Fang , Stephen W. Thomas , Xiaodan Zhu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly improves the factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet standard pipelines often lack mechanisms to verify inter- mediate reasoning, leaving them vulnerable to hallucinations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eeham Khan , Luis Rodriguez , Marc Queudot

Large Reasoning Models achieve strong performance on complex tasks but remain prone to hallucinations, particularly in long-form generation where errors compound across reasoning steps. Existing approaches to improving factuality, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wen Luo , Guangyue Peng , Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Wei Li , Yuhan Song , Shaohang Wei , Feifan Song , Furu Wei , Houfeng Wang

Generative AI models exhibit remarkable potential; however, hallucinations across various tasks present a significant challenge, particularly for longer inputs that current approaches struggle to address effectively. We introduce SCALE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Barrett Martin Lattimer , Patrick Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Yi Yang

Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating long-form responses, but evaluating their factuality remains challenging due to complex inter-sentence dependencies within the generated facts. Prior solutions predominantly follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xin Liu , Lechen Zhang , Sheza Munir , Yiyang Gu , Lu Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive results across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet they can often produce factually incorrect outputs. This paper introduces a simple but effective low-latency…

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