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Neural text generation (data- or text-to-text) demonstrates remarkable performance when training data is abundant which for many applications is not the case. To collect a large corpus of parallel data, heuristic rules are often used but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Katja Filippova

Identification of hallucination spans in black-box language model generated text is essential for applications in the real world. A recent attempt at this direction is SemEval-2025 Task 3, Mu-SHROOM-a Multilingual Shared Task on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Saketh Reddy Vemula , Parameswari Krishnamurthy

Hallucination, the generation of factually incorrect information, remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), especially in open-domain long-form generation. Existing approaches for detecting hallucination in long-form…

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a critical barrier to their reliable deployment, a vulnerability heavily exacerbated in non-English and resource-constrained contexts. Existing detection approaches that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Riasad Alvi , Nurul Labib Sayeedi , Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer a promising path toward interpretable deepfake detection by generating textual explanations. However, the reasoning process of current MLLM-based methods combines evidence generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xinghan Li , Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen

We address the issue of hallucination in data-to-text generation, i.e., reducing the generation of text that is unsupported by the source. We conjecture that hallucination can be caused by an encoder-decoder model generating content phrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ran Tian , Shashi Narayan , Thibault Sellam , Ankur P. Parikh

Diffusion models, despite their impressive demos, often produce hallucinatory samples with structural inconsistencies that lie outside of the support of the true data distribution. Such hallucinations can be attributed to excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Kostas Triaridis , Alexandros Graikos , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Dimitris Samaras

Current large language models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucination issues, i,e, generating content that appears factual but is actually unreliable. A typical hallucination detection pipeline involves response decomposition (i.e., claim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fan Xu , Huixuan Zhang , Zhenliang Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Xiaojun Wan

Hallucination has been a popular topic in natural language generation (NLG). In real-world applications, unfaithful content can result in poor data quality or loss of trust from end users. Thus, it is crucial to fact-check before adopting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiaonan Jing , Srinivas Billa , Danny Godbout

Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) refers to the generation of content that is not faithful to the input or the real-world facts. This paper provides a rigorous treatment of hallucination in LLMs, including formal definitions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Esmail Gumaan

While large language models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of tasks, they remain susceptible to hallucinations -- generating plausible yet factually incorrect contents. Existing methods to mitigating such risk…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yurui Chang , Bochuan Cao , Lu Lin

Hallucination detection is critical for ensuring the reliability of large language models (LLMs) in context-based generation. Prior work has explored intrinsic signals available during generation, among which attention offers a direct view…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Siya Qi , Yudong Chen , Runcong Zhao , Qinglin Zhu , Zhanghao Hu , Wei Liu , Yulan He , Zheng Yuan , Lin Gui

Reasoning-augmented vision language models (VLMs) generate explicit chains of thought that promise greater capability and transparency but also introduce new failure modes: models may reach correct answers via visually unfaithful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Rheeya Uppaal , Phu Mon Htut , Min Bai , Nikolaos Pappas , Zheng Qi , Sandesh Swamy

While Large Language Models have transformed how we interact with AI systems, they suffer from a critical flaw: they confidently generate false information that sounds entirely plausible. This hallucination problem has become a major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Piyushkumar Patel

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse natural language processing tasks, yet they remain susceptible to hallucinations -- generating content that is factually incorrect, unfaithful to provided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ahmed Cherif

As we all know, hallucinations prevail in Large Language Models (LLMs), where the generated content is coherent but factually incorrect, which inflicts a heavy blow on the widespread application of LLMs. Previous studies have shown that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinping Zhao , Jindi Yu , Zhenyu Liu , Jifang Wang , Dongfang Li , Yibin Chen , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) can suffer from hallucinations when generating text. These hallucinations impede various applications in society and industry by making LLMs untrustworthy. Current LLMs generate text in an autoregressive fashion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lukas Aichberger , Kajetan Schweighofer , Mykyta Ielanskyi , Sepp Hochreiter

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge from linearized subgraphs retrieved from knowledge graphs. However, LLMs struggle to interpret the relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shanghao Li , Jinda Han , Yibo Wang , Yuanjie Zhu , Zihe Song , Langzhou He , Kenan Kamel A Alghythee , Philip S. Yu

This survey presents a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of hallucination in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), also known as Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), which have demonstrated significant advancements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zechen Bai , Pichao Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Zongbo Han , Zheng Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Although Large Language Models have demonstrated powerful capabilities in a wide range of tasks such as language understanding and code generation, the frequent occurrence of hallucinations during the generation process has become a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 JinXin Li , Gang Tu , JunJie Hu