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Despite the outstanding performance of large language models (LLMs) across various NLP tasks, hallucinations in LLMs--where LLMs generate inaccurate responses--remains as a critical problem as it can be directly connected to a crisis of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Minsuh Joo , Hyunsoo Cho

Large Language Models (LLMs) often hallucinate, generating content inconsistent with the input. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) can mitigate hallucinations but require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yifan Zhu , Huiqiang Rong , Haoran Luo

The prevalent use of large language models (LLMs) in various domains has drawn attention to the issue of "hallucination," which refers to instances where LLMs generate factually inaccurate or ungrounded information. Existing techniques for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Junyu Luo , Cao Xiao , Fenglong Ma

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have extended their capabilities to video understanding. Yet, these models are often plagued by "hallucinations", where irrelevant or nonsensical content is generated,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Dongyan Zhao , Cihang Xie , Zilong Zheng

Modern code-generation LLMs can already solve a large fraction of programming problems, yet they still hallucinate subtle bugs that make their outputs unsafe for autonomous deployment. We present functional clustering, a black-box wrapper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chaitanya Ravuri , Saman Amarasinghe

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly adopted in remote sensing (RS) and have shown strong performance on tasks such as RS visual grounding (RSVG), RS visual question answering (RSVQA), and multimodal dialogue. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zihui Zhou , Yong Feng , Yanying Chen , Guofan Duan , Zhenxi Song , Mingliang Zhou , Weijia Jia

Although large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, their practical application is often hindered by the generation of non-factual content, which is called "hallucination". Ensuring the reliability of LLMs' outputs is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yue Ding , Xiaofang Zhu , Tianze Xia , Junfei Wu , Xinlong Chen , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Hallucination continues to be one of the most critical challenges in the institutional adoption journey of Large Language Models (LLMs). While prior studies have primarily focused on the post-generation analysis and refinement of outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 William Watson , Nicole Cho , Nishan Srishankar

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, yet remain susceptible to hallucinations. While prior works have proposed confidence representation methods for hallucination detection, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Elyes Hajji , Aymen Bouguerra , Fabio Arnez

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are foundational in various applications due to their extensive knowledge from pre-training and fine-tuning. Despite this, they are prone to generating factual and commonsense errors, raising…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wenxuan Wang , Yuk-Kit Chan , Zixuan Ling , Juluan Shi , Youliang Yuan , Jen-tse Huang , Yifei Zhang , Wenxiang Jiao , Zhaopeng Tu , Michael R. Lyu

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in generative tasks, such as image and video synthesis. However, they still often produce hallucinated samples (hallucinations) that conflict with real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuai Fu , Jian Zhou , Qi Chen , Huang Jing , Huy Anh Nguyen , Xiaohan Liu , Zhixiong Zeng , Lin Ma , Quanshi Zhang , Qi Wu

Large language models (LLMs) can be prone to hallucinations - generating unreliable outputs that are unfaithful to their inputs, external facts or internally inconsistent. In this work, we address several challenges for post-hoc…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Simon Valentin , Jinmiao Fu , Gianluca Detommaso , Shaoyuan Xu , Giovanni Zappella , Bryan Wang

While progress in GUI agents has been largely driven by industrial-scale training, ungrounded hallucinations often trigger cascading failures in real-world deployments.Unlike general VLM domains, the GUI agent field lacks a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chao Jin , Wenkui Yang , Hao Sun , Yuqi Liao , Qianyi Jiang , Kai Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Huaibo Huang

Faithfulness hallucinations in VQA occur when vision-language models produce fluent yet visually ungrounded answers, severely undermining their reliability in safety-critical applications. Existing detection methods mainly fall into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaodong Tong , Qi Zhang , Chen Li , Lei Jiang , Yanbing Liu

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

Object hallucination in large vision-language models presents a significant challenge to their safe deployment in real-world applications. Recent works have proposed object-level hallucination scores to estimate the likelihood of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Seongheon Park , Sharon Li

Generating accurate radiology reports from medical images is a clinically important but challenging task. While current Vision Language Models (VLMs) show promise, they are prone to generating hallucinations, potentially compromising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Serena Zhang , Sraavya Sambara , Oishi Banerjee , Julian Acosta , L. John Fahrner , Pranav Rajpurkar

Despite tremendous advancements in large language models (LLMs) over recent years, a notably urgent challenge for their practical deployment is the phenomenon of hallucination, where the model fabricates facts and produces non-factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Derui Zhu , Dingfan Chen , Qing Li , Zongxiong Chen , Lei Ma , Jens Grossklags , Mario Fritz

Mitigating hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs) remains an open problem. Recent benchmarks do not address hallucinations in open-ended free-form responses, which we term "Type I hallucinations". Instead, they focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Prannay Kaul , Zhizhong Li , Hao Yang , Yonatan Dukler , Ashwin Swaminathan , C. J. Taylor , Stefano Soatto

The increasing adoption of AI-generated radiology reports necessitates robust methods for detecting hallucinations--false or unfounded statements that could impact patient care. We present ReXTrust, a novel framework for fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Romain Hardy , Sung Eun Kim , Du Hyun Ro , Pranav Rajpurkar