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Despite significant advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the performance of existing VLMs remains hindered by object hallucination, a critical challenge to achieving accurate visual understanding. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Woohyeon Park , Woojin Kim , Jaeik Kim , Jaeyoung Do

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet they are prone to generating factually incorrect outputs - commonly known as "hallucinations." Among existing mitigation strategies, uncertainty-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Samir Abdaljalil , Hasan Kurban , Parichit Sharma , Erchin Serpedin , Rachad Atat

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

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models frequently encounter hallucination phenomena when integrating external information with internal parametric knowledge. Empirical studies demonstrate that the disequilibrium between external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lei Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations -- factually incorrect outputs -- leading to a large body of work on detecting and mitigating such cases. We argue that it is important to distinguish between two types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Adi Simhi , Jonathan Herzig , Idan Szpektor , Yonatan Belinkov

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations, where generated responses seem semantically plausible yet exhibit little or no relevance to the input image. Previous studies reveal that this issue primarily stems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hao Fang , Changle Zhou , Jiawei Kong , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

LVLMs have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities but remain prone to hallucinations, producing outputs inconsistent with visual inputs or user instructions. Existing training-free methods, including contrastive decoding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Guangtao Lyu , Qi Liu , Chenghao Xu , Jiexi Yan , Muli Yang , Xueting Li , Fen Fang , Cheng Deng

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from cross-modal hallucinations, where one modality inappropriately influences generation about another, leading to fabricated output. This exposes a more fundamental deficiency in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sangyun Chung , Se Yeon Kim , Youngchae Chee , Yong Man Ro

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved impressive progress in visual perception and reasoning. However, when confronted with visually ambiguous or non-semantic scene text, they often struggle to accurately spot and understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yan Shu , Hangui Lin , Yexin Liu , Yan Zhang , Gangyan Zeng , Yan Li , Yu Zhou , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang , Nicu Sebe

Object hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is a persistent failure mode that causes the model to perceive objects absent in the image. This weakness of MLLMs is currently studied using static benchmarks with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aryan Yazdan Parast , Parsa Hosseini , Hesam Asadollahzadeh , Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Basim Azam , Soheil Feizi , Naveed Akhtar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown their ability to collaborate effectively with humans in real-world scenarios. However, LLMs are apt to generate hallucinations, i.e., makeup incorrect text and unverified information, which can cause…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shiping Yang , Renliang Sun , Xiaojun Wan

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance in their ability to write human-like text, a key challenge remains around their tendency to hallucinate generating content that appears factual but is ungrounded. This issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 S. M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy , S M Mehedi Zaman , Vinija Jain , Anku Rani , Vipula Rawte , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das

The localization of code hallucinations aims to identify specific lines of code containing hallucinations, helping developers to improve the reliability of AI-generated code more efficiently. Although recent studies have adopted several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Nan Jia , Wangchao Sang , Pengfei Lin , Xiangping Chen , Yuan Huang , Yi Liu , Mingliang Li

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) - instances where models generate plausible but factually incorrect information - present a significant challenge for AI. We introduce "Ask a Local", a novel hallucination detection method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aldan Creo , Héctor Cerezo-Costas , Pedro Alonso-Doval , Maximiliano Hormazábal-Lagos

The impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have attracted extensive interests of applying LLMs to medical field. However, the complex nature of clinical environments presents significant hallucination challenges for LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Derong Xu , Ziheng Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Zhenxi Lin , Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yefeng Zheng , Enhong Chen

Hallucinations, the generation of apparently convincing yet false statements, remain a major barrier to the safe deployment of LLMs. Building on the strong performance of self-detection methods, we examine the use of structured knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sahil Kale , Antonio Luca Alfeo

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are now central to healthcare applications such as medical visual question answering and imaging report generation. Yet, these models remain vulnerable to hallucination outputs that appear plausible but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zahra Mahdavi , Zahra Khodakaramimaghsoud , Hooman Khaloo , Sina Bakhshandeh Taleshani , Erfan Hashemi , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Omid Nejati Manzari

Large Language Models (LLMs) often hallucinate, generating nonsensical or false information that can be especially harmful in sensitive fields such as medicine or law. To study this phenomenon systematically, we introduce FalseCite, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nathan Mao , Varun Kaushik , Shreya Shivkumar , Parham Sharafoleslami , Kevin Zhu , Sunishchal Dev