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Hallucination is often viewed as a direct consequence of missing knowledge: a model answers incorrectly when the correct answer is absent from its generation-time distribution, and correctly when it is present. We test this assumption by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jewon Yeom , Jaewon Sok , Heejun Kim , Seonghyeon Park , Jeongjae Park , Taesup Kim

In text generation, hallucinations refer to the generation of seemingly coherent text that contradicts established knowledge. One compelling hypothesis is that hallucinations occur when a language model is given a generation task outside…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ameya Godbole , Nicholas Monath , Seungyeon Kim , Ankit Singh Rawat , Andrew McCallum , Manzil Zaheer

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ziwei Ji , Nayeon Lee , Rita Frieske , Tiezheng Yu , Dan Su , Yan Xu , Etsuko Ishii , Yejin Bang , Delong Chen , Wenliang Dai , Ho Shu Chan , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

Knowledge syntheses (literature reviews) are essential to health professions education (HPE), consolidating findings to advance theory and practice. However, they are labor-intensive, especially during data extraction. Artificial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xi Long , Christy Boscardin , Lauren A. Maggio , Joseph A. Costello , Ralph Gonzales , Rasmyah Hammoudeh , Ki Lai , Yoon Soo Park , Brian C. Gin

While AI-generated hallucinations pose considerable risks, the underlying cognitive mechanisms by which humans can successfully recognize or be misled by these hallucinations remain unclear. To address this problem, this paper explores…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shuqi Zhu , Yi Zhong , Ziyi Ye , Bangde Du , Yujia Zhou , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu

OpenAI has recently argued that hallucinations in large language models result primarily from misaligned evaluation incentives that reward confident guessing rather than epistemic humility. On this view, hallucination is a contingent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Richard Ackermann , Simeon Emanuilov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly important in natural language processing, enabling advanced data analytics through natural language queries. However, these models often generate "hallucinations"-inaccurate or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mikhail Rumiantsau , Aliaksei Vertsel , Ilya Hrytsuk , Isaiah Ballah

Hallucinations remain a significant challenge in current Generative AI models, undermining trust in AI systems and their reliability. This study investigates how orchestrating multiple specialized Artificial Intelligent Agents can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Diego Gosmar , Deborah A. Dahl

Large Language Models have rapidly advanced in their ability to interpret and generate natural language. In enterprise settings, they are frequently augmented with closed-source domain knowledge to deliver more contextually informed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Tanmay Agrawal

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved a degree of success in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, yet they remain prone to a significant challenge known as hallucination: producing information that is not substantiated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ray Li , Tanishka Bagade , Kevin Martinez , Flora Yasmin , Grant Ayala , Michael Lam , Kevin Zhu

With the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs), hallucinations, which are non-factual fabrications in model outputs, have become serious concerns. Reasoning capabilities have received attention as a self-verification process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Junichiro Niimi

AI applications driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are prone to hallucinations and pose considerable risks to human users. Crucially, such hallucinations are not equally problematic: some hallucination contents could be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jianhong Pang , Ruoxi Cheng , Ziyi Ye , Xingjun Ma , Zuxuan Wu , Xuanjing Huang , Yu-Gang Jiang

Generative AI, with its tendency to "hallucinate" incorrect results, may pose a risk to knowledge work by introducing errors. On the other hand, it may also provide unprecedented opportunities for users, particularly non-experts, to learn…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Advait Sarkar , Xiaotong , Xu , Neil Toronto , Ian Drosos , Christian Poelitz

Generative super-resolution (GSR) currently sets the state-of-the-art in terms of perceptual image quality, overcoming the "regression-to-the-mean" blur of prior non-generative models. However, from a human perspective, such models do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Weiming Ren , Raghav Goyal , Zhiming Hu , Tristan Ty Aumentado-Armstrong , Iqbal Mohomed , Alex Levinshtein

This article discusses the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal profession, focusing on its potential to streamline tasks such as document review, research, and contract drafting. However, challenges persist,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sidra Nasir , Qamar Abbas , Samita Bai , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to "hallucinate" false information is well-known; AI-generated citations to non-existent sources have made their way into the reference lists of peer-reviewed publications.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Alex Glynn

The pursuit of high perceptual quality in image restoration has driven the development of revolutionary generative models, capable of producing results often visually indistinguishable from real data. However, as their perceptual quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Regev Cohen , Idan Kligvasser , Ehud Rivlin , Daniel Freedman

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

The accuracy of Generative AI is increasingly critical as Large Language Models become more widely adopted. Due to potential flaws in training data and hallucination in outputs, inaccuracy can significantly impact individuals interests by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zihao Li , Weiwei Yi , Jiahong Chen

Model hallucination is one of the most critical challenges faced by Large Language Models (LLMs), especially in high-stakes code intelligence tasks. As LLMs become increasingly integrated into software engineering tasks, understanding and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Cuiyun Gao , Guodong Fan , Chun Yong Chong , Shizhan Chen , Chao Liu , David Lo , Zibin Zheng , Qing Liao