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A frequently observed problem with LLMs is their tendency to generate output that is nonsensical, illogical, or factually incorrect, often referred to broadly as hallucination. Building on the recently proposed HalluciGen task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Evangelia Gogoulou , Shorouq Zahra , Liane Guillou , Luise Dürlich , Joakim Nivre

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently "hallucinate" - generate plausible yet factually incorrect statements - posing a critical barrier to their trustworthy deployment. In this work, we propose a new paradigm for diagnosing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lexiang Xiong , Qi Li , Jingwen Ye , Xinchao Wang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a main technique for alleviating hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). Despite the integration of RAG, LLMs may still present unsupported or contradictory claims to the retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Cheng Niu , Yuanhao Wu , Juno Zhu , Siliang Xu , Kashun Shum , Randy Zhong , Juntong Song , Tong Zhang

This paper introduces KnowHalu, a novel approach for detecting hallucinations in text generated by large language models (LLMs), utilizing step-wise reasoning, multi-formulation query, multi-form knowledge for factual checking, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jiawei Zhang , Chejian Xu , Yu Gai , Freddy Lecue , Dawn Song , Bo Li

In the era of large language models (LLMs), hallucination (i.e., the tendency to generate factually incorrect content) poses great challenge to trustworthy and reliable deployment of LLMs in real-world applications. To tackle the LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Junyi Li , Jie Chen , Ruiyang Ren , Xiaoxue Cheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

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

In Text-to-SQL generation, large language models (LLMs) have shown strong generalization and adaptability. However, LLMs sometimes generate hallucinations, i.e.,unrealistic or illogical content, which leads to incorrect SQL queries and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bo Yang , Yinfen Xia , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu

Multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) are increasingly deployed for vision-language tasks that produce explicit intermediate rationales. However, reasoning traces can contain unsafe content even when the final answer is non-harmful,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxiao Xiang , Junchi Chen , Zhenchao Jin , Changtao Miao , Haojie Yuan , Qi Chu , Tao Gong , Nenghai Yu

The rapidly developing Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown notable capabilities on a range of multi-modal tasks, but still face the hallucination phenomena where the generated texts do not align with the given contexts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wenyi Xiao , Ziwei Huang , Leilei Gan , Wanggui He , Haoyuan Li , Zhelun Yu , Fangxun Shu , Hao Jiang , Linchao Zhu

Detecting hallucinations in large language model (LLM) outputs is pivotal, yet traditional fine-tuning for this classification task is impeded by the expensive and quickly outdated annotation process, especially across numerous vertical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Dongxu Zhang , Varun Gangal , Barrett Martin Lattimer , Yi Yang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models are designed to incorporate external knowledge, reducing hallucinations caused by insufficient parametric (internal) knowledge. However, even with accurate and relevant retrieved content, RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhongxiang Sun , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Jun Xu , Xiao Zhang , Weijie Yu , Yang Song , Han Li

Hallucination correction is not a one-direction problem. We show that intermediate layers are neither uniformly more truthful than final layers nor uniformly less trustworthy. Yet hallucination reduction is usually instantiated through one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tej Sanibh Ranade

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent natural language texts when given relevant documents as background context. This ability has attracted considerable interest in developing industry applications of LLMs. However, LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Deren Lei , Yaxi Li , Mengya Hu , Mingyu Wang , Vincent Yun , Emily Ching , Eslam Kamal

A common approach to hallucination detection casts it as a natural language inference (NLI) task, often using LLMs to classify whether the generated text is entailed by corresponding reference texts. Since entailment classification is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ron Eliav , Arie Cattan , Eran Hirsch , Shahaf Bassan , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal , Ido Dagan

Foundation models for natural language processing have many coherent definitions of hallucination and methods for its detection and mitigation. However, analogous definitions and methods do not exist for multi-variate time-series (MVTS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Vijja Wichitwechkarn , Charles Fox , Ruchi Choudhary

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the development of natural language processing (NLP), especially in text generation tasks like question answering. However, model hallucinations remain a major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhongxin Liu , Zhiwei Wang , Jun Niu , Ying Li , Hongyu Sun , Meng Xu , He Wang , Gaofei Wu , Yuqing Zhang

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) produce fluent continuations that are not supported by the prompt, especially under minimal contextual cues and ambiguity. We introduce Distributional Semantics Tracing (DST), a model-native…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gagan Bhatia , Somayajulu G Sripada , Kevin Allan , Jacobo Azcona

Neural sequence generation models are known to "hallucinate", by producing outputs that are unrelated to the source text. These hallucinations are potentially harmful, yet it remains unclear in what conditions they arise and how to mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weijia Xu , Sweta Agrawal , Eleftheria Briakou , Marianna J. Martindale , Marine Carpuat

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to augment the input to Large Language Models (LLMs) with external information, such as recent or domain-specific knowledge. Nonetheless, current models still produce closed-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Fabian Ridder , Laurin Lessel , Malte Schilling