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Large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, which sparked a widespread effort to detect and prevent them. Recent work attempts to mitigate hallucinations by intervening in the model's generation, typically computing…

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The emergence of large language models (LLMs) is a milestone in generative artificial intelligence, achieving significant success in text comprehension and generation tasks. Despite the tremendous success of LLMs in many downstream tasks,…

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Reflection, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to evaluate and revise their own reasoning, has been widely used to improve performance on complex reasoning tasks. Yet, most prior works emphasizes designing reflective prompting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fu-Chieh Chang , Yu-Ting Lee , Pei-Yuan Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and reasoning, but suffer from hallucination: the generation of factually incorrect content. While numerous methods have been developed to reduce…

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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage powerful perceptual priors from web-scale Vision-Language Model (VLM) pre-training, yet they remain surprisingly brittle in practice, frequently failing at simple robotic tasks. To mitigate this,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Miranda Muqing Miao , Subin Kim , Brandon Yang , Lyle Ungar

Hallucinations (i.e., generating plausible but inaccurate content) and laziness (i.e. excessive refusals or defaulting to "I don't know") persist as major challenges in LLM reasoning. Current efforts to reduce hallucinations primarily focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zirui Zhao , Hanze Dong , Amrita Saha , Caiming Xiong , Doyen Sahoo

To address hallucination issues in large language models (LLMs), this paper proposes a method for mitigating prompt-induced hallucinations. Building on a knowledge distillation chain-style model, we introduce a code module to guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jinbo Hao , Kai Yang , Qingzhen Su , Yang Chen , Yifan Li , Chao Jiang

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in multi-step reasoning tasks. However, alongside these successes, a more deceptive form of model error has emerged--Reasoning Hallucination--where logically coherent but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhongxiang Sun , Qipeng Wang , Haoyu Wang , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

Despite the strong reasoning capabilities of recent large language models (LLMs), achieving reliable performance on challenging tasks often requires post-training or computationally expensive sampling strategies, limiting their practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Fangan Dong , Zuming Yan , Xuri Ge , Zhiwei Xu , Mengqi Zhang , Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Xin Xin , Zhumin Chen , Ying Zhou

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often hallucinate content that is fluent yet unsupported by the image, limiting their reliability in real-world deployment. We show that a key failure mode arises from route competition: even when visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhe Cheng , Wenyu Chen , Fode Zhang , Dehuan Shen

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate transformative potential, yet their reasoning remains inconsistent and unreliable. Reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuning is a key mechanism for improvement, but its effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pei-Chi Pan , Yingbin Liang , Sen Lin

Despite the state-of-the-art performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), these models often suffer from hallucinations, which can undermine their performance in critical applications. In this work, we propose SAFE, a novel method for…

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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) error correction aims to correct recognition errors while preserving accurate text. Although traditional approaches demonstrate moderate effectiveness, LLMs offer a paradigm that eliminates the need for…

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Large language models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate on abstractive summarization tasks such as document-based question-answering, meeting summarization, and clinical report generation, even though all necessary information is included in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Erik Jones , Hamid Palangi , Clarisse Simões , Varun Chandrasekaran , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Arindam Mitra , Ahmed Awadallah , Ece Kamar

Large language models (LLMs) hallucinate: they produce fluent outputs that are factually incorrect. We present a geometric dynamical systems framework in which hallucinations arise from task-dependent basin structure in latent space. Using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kalyan Cherukuri , Lav R. Varshney

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit impressive multimodal reasoning capabilities but remain highly susceptible to object hallucination, where models generate responses that are not factually aligned with the visual content. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Younan Zhu , Linwei Tao , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) extend large language models with explicit, multi-step reasoning traces to enhance transparency and performance on complex tasks. However, these reasoning traces can be redundant or logically inconsistent,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Changyue Wang , Weihang Su , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu

Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities on complex multimodal understanding tasks, they still suffer from the notorious hallucination issue: generating outputs misaligned with obvious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Chen , Xin Yan , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Long Chen

Despite the significant advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), their tendency to generate hallucinations undermines reliability and restricts broader practical deployment. Among the hallucination mitigation methods, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tiantian Dang , Chao Bi , Shufan Shen , Jinzhe Liu , Qingming Huang , Shuhui Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across many generation tasks. Nevertheless, effectively aligning them with desired behaviors remains a significant challenge. Activation steering is an effective and…

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