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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in natural language generation, but remain susceptible to hallucination. In response to growing concerns about hallucinations, several benchmarks have been developed, primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aisha Alansari , Hamzah Luqman

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), defined as the generation of content inconsistent with facts or context, represent a core obstacle to their reliable deployment in critical domains. Current research primarily focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yanyi Liu , Qingwen Yang , Tiezheng Guo , Feiyu Qu , Jun Liu , Yingyou Wen

Hallucination has been a major problem for large language models and remains a critical challenge when it comes to multimodality in which vision-language models (VLMs) have to deal with not just textual but also visual inputs. Despite rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhecan Wang , Garrett Bingham , Adams Yu , Quoc Le , Thang Luong , Golnaz Ghiasi

Hallucination detection is a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), and existing studies heavily rely on powerful closed-source LLMs such as GPT-4. In this paper, we propose an autonomous LLM-based agent framework, called…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xiaoxue Cheng , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongzhi Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

Despite the outstanding performance in multimodal tasks, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been plagued by the issue of hallucination, i.e., generating content that is inconsistent with the corresponding visual inputs. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bei Yan , Jie Zhang , Zheng Yuan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have recently achieved strong performance across various audio-centric tasks. However, hallucination, where models generate responses that are semantically incorrect or acoustically unsupported, remains…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Feiyu Zhao , Yiming Chen , Wenhuan Lu , Daipeng Zhang , Xianghu Yue , Jianguo Wei

This article surveys Evaluation models to automatically detect hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and presents a comprehensive benchmark of their performance across six RAG applications. Methods included in our study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ashish Sardana

Context-grounded hallucinations are cases where model outputs contain information not verifiable against the source text. We study the applicability of LLMs for localizing such hallucinations, as a more practical alternative to existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yehonatan Peisakhovsky , Zorik Gekhman , Yosi Mass , Liat Ein-Dor , Roi Reichart

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess a remarkable capacity to generate persuasive and intelligible language. However, coherence does not equate to truthfulness, as the responses often contain subtle hallucinations. Existing benchmarks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alex Robertson , Huizhi Liang , Mahbub Gani , Rohit Kumar , Srijith Rajamohan

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet their tendency to hallucinate poses serious challenges for reliable deployment. Despite numerous hallucination detection methods, their evaluations often rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Denis Janiak , Jakub Binkowski , Albert Sawczyn , Bogdan Gabrys , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable advancements, yet hallucination, where models produce inaccurate or non-factual statements, remains a significant challenge for real-world deployment. Although current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qing Li , Jiahui Geng , Zongxiong Chen , Derui Zhu , Yuxia Wang , Congbo Ma , Chenyang Lyu , Fakhri Karray

Large language models (LLMs) continue to hallucinate in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), producing claims that are unsupported by or conflict with the retrieved context. Detecting such errors remains challenging when faithfulness is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Boxi Yu , Yuzhong Zhang , Liting Lin , Lionel Briand , Emir Muñoz

Many works have proposed methodologies for language model (LM) hallucination detection and reported seemingly strong performance. However, we argue that the reported performance to date reflects not only a model's genuine awareness of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yeongbin Seo , Dongha Lee , Jinyoung Yeo

Hallucinations are a persistent problem with Large Language Models (LLMs). As these models become increasingly used in high-stakes domains, such as healthcare and finance, the need for effective hallucination detection is crucial. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Dylan Bouchard , Mohit Singh Chauhan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating plausible yet incorrect responses, known as hallucinations. Effectively detecting hallucinations is therefore crucial for the safe deployment of LLMs. Recent research has linked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Litian Liu , Reza Pourreza , Sunny Panchal , Apratim Bhattacharyya , Yubing Jian , Yao Qin , Roland Memisevic

The detection of sophisticated hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) is hampered by a ``Detection Dilemma'': methods probing internal states (Internal State Probing) excel at identifying factual inconsistencies but fail on logical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yusheng Song , Lirong Qiu , Xi Zhang , Zhihao Tang

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at visual understanding but often suffer from visual hallucinations, where they generate descriptions of nonexistent objects, actions, or concepts, posing significant risks in safety-critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tsung-Han Wu , Heekyung Lee , Jiaxin Ge , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

The increasing reliance on natural language generation (NLG) models, particularly large language models, has raised concerns about the reliability and accuracy of their outputs. A key challenge is hallucination, where models produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fan Xu , Xinyu Hu , Zhenghan Yu , Li Lin , Xu Zhang , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhou , Jinjie Gu , Xiaojun Wan

Hallucination issues continue to affect multimodal large language models (MLLMs), with existing research mainly addressing object-level or attribute-level hallucinations, neglecting the more complex relation hallucinations that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kening Zheng , Junkai Chen , Yibo Yan , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu