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Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a significant challenge, generating misleading or unverifiable content that undermines trust and reliability. Existing evaluation methods, such as KnowHalu, employ multi-stage verification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chenggong Zhang , Haopeng Wang , Hexi Meng

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), i.e., the tendency to generate plausible but non-factual content, pose a significant challenge for their reliable deployment in high-stakes environments. However, existing hallucination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yitong Qiao , Licheng Pan , Yu Mi , Lei Liu , Yue Shen , Fei Sun , Zhixuan Chu

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains. Recent benchmarks designed to assess LLM hallucinations within conventional NLP tasks, such as knowledge-intensive question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhiying Zhu , Yiming Yang , Zhiqing Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in industry but remain prone to hallucinations, limiting their reliability in critical applications. This work addresses hallucination reduction in consumer grievance chatbots built using LLaMA…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities but also a concerning tendency to hallucinate. This paper presents RefChecker, a framework that introduces claim-triplets to represent claims in LLM responses, aiming to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xiangkun Hu , Dongyu Ru , Lin Qiu , Qipeng Guo , Tianhang Zhang , Yang Xu , Yun Luo , Pengfei Liu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Zhang

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) 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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Borui Yang , Md Afif Al Mamun , Jie M. Zhang , Gias Uddin

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, detecting hallucinated content$\unicode{x2013}$text that is not grounded in supporting evidence$\unicode{x2013}$has become a critical challenge. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Deanna Emery , Michael Goitia , Freddie Vargus , Iulia Neagu

Hallucinations remain a major obstacle for large language models (LLMs), especially in safety-critical domains. We present HALT (Hallucination Assessment via Log-probs as Time series), a lightweight hallucination detector that leverages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ahmad Shapiro , Karan Taneja , Ashok Goel

Large language models demonstrate impressive results across diverse tasks but are still known to hallucinate, generating linguistically plausible but incorrect answers to questions. Uncertainty quantification has been proposed as a strategy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Edward Phillips , Sean Wu , Soheila Molaei , Danielle Belgrave , Anshul Thakur , David Clifton

Hallucination detection is a critical step toward understanding the trustworthiness of modern language models (LMs). To achieve this goal, we re-examine existing detection approaches based on the self-consistency of LMs and uncover two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiaxin Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Kamalika Das , Bradley A. Malin , Sricharan Kumar

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in healthcare, but hallucinations remain a major barrier to clinical use. We present CHECK, a continuous-learning framework that integrates structured clinical databases with a classifier grounded…

Hallucination has emerged as a significant barrier to the effective application of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a novel Attention-Guided SElf-Reflection (AGSER) approach for zero-shot hallucination detection in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Qiang Liu , Xinlong Chen , Yue Ding , Bowen Song , Weiqiang Wang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

LLM hallucination, i.e. generating factually incorrect yet seemingly convincing answers, is currently a major threat to the trustworthiness and reliability of LLMs. The first step towards solving this complicated problem is to measure it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jiaheng Wei , Yuanshun Yao , Jean-Francois Ton , Hongyi Guo , Andrew Estornell , Yang Liu

Hallucination, a phenomenon where multimodal large language models~(MLLMs) tend to generate textual responses that are plausible but unaligned with the image, has become one major hurdle in various MLLM-related applications. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Han Qiu , Jiaxing Huang , Peng Gao , Qin Qi , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Despite their success, large language models (LLMs) face the critical challenge of hallucinations, generating plausible but incorrect content. While much research has focused on hallucinations in multiple modalities including images and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nan Jiang , Qi Li , Lin Tan , Tianyi Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) still produce plausible-sounding but ungrounded factual claims, a problem that worsens in multi-turn dialogue as context grows and early errors cascade. We introduce $\textbf{HalluHard}$, a challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dongyang Fan , Sebastien Delsad , Nicolas Flammarion , Maksym Andriushchenko

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation, offering developers groundbreaking automated programming support. However, LLMs often generate code that is syntactically correct and even semantically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuchen Tian , Weixiang Yan , Qian Yang , Xuandong Zhao , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Ziyang Luo , Lei Ma , Dawn Song

Generative image reconstruction algorithms such as measurement conditioned diffusion models are increasingly popular in the field of medical imaging. These powerful models can transform low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) inputs into outputs…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Matthew Tivnan , Siyeop Yoon , Zhennong Chen , Xiang Li , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Hallucinations in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs for Question Answering (QA) tasks can critically undermine their real-world reliability. This paper introduces a methodology for robust, one-shot hallucination detection, specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Charles Moslonka , Hicham Randrianarivo , Arthur Garnier , Emmanuel Malherbe