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Despite the dramatic progress in Large Language Model (LLM) development, LLMs often provide seemingly plausible but not factual information, often referred to as hallucinations. Retrieval-augmented LLMs provide a non-parametric approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Sai Munikoti , Anurag Acharya , Sridevi Wagle , Sameera Horawalavithana

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in customer support is constrained by hallucination (generating false information) and the high cost of proprietary models. To address these challenges, we propose a retrieval-augmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ashley Lewis , Michael White , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Ye Wang

Prior work on large language model (LLM) hallucinations has associated them with model uncertainty or inaccurate knowledge. In this work, we define and investigate a distinct type of hallucination, where a model can consistently answer a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Adi Simhi , Itay Itzhak , Fazl Barez , Gabriel Stanovsky , Yonatan Belinkov

Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly applied to a wide range of tasks, from natural language understanding to code generation. While they have also been used to assist in bibliographic recommendation, the hallucination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junichiro Niimi

Large language models (LMs) are prone to generate factual errors, which are often called hallucinations. In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive taxonomy of hallucinations and argue that hallucinations manifest in diverse forms, each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Abhika Mishra , Akari Asai , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yizhong Wang , Graham Neubig , Yulia Tsvetkov , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks, yet they are susceptible to generating inaccurate or unreliable responses, a phenomenon known as hallucination. In critical domains such as health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Sumera Anjum , Hanzhi Zhang , Wenjun Zhou , Eun Jin Paek , Xiaopeng Zhao , Yunhe Feng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide variety of natural language tasks. However, they have been shown to suffer from a critical limitation pertinent to 'hallucination' in their output. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Neeraj Varshney , Satyam Raj , Venkatesh Mishra , Agneet Chatterjee , Ritika Sarkar , Amir Saeidi , Chitta Baral

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and describing visual content, achieving state-of-the-art performance across various vision-language tasks. However, these models often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif , Sajib Acharjee Dip , Khizar Hussain , Lang Zhang , Chris Thomas

Edgar Allan Poe noted, "Truth often lurks in the shadow of error," highlighting the deep complexity intrinsic to the interplay between truth and falsehood, notably under conditions of cognitive and informational asymmetry. This dynamic is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chaozhuo Li , Pengbo Wang , Chenxu Wang , Litian Zhang , Zheng Liu , Qiwei Ye , Yuanbo Xu , Feiran Huang , Xi Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Large language models (LLMs) often produce errors, including factual inaccuracies, biases, and reasoning failures, collectively referred to as "hallucinations". Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs' internal states encode information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hadas Orgad , Michael Toker , Zorik Gekhman , Roi Reichart , Idan Szpektor , Hadas Kotek , Yonatan Belinkov

Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" persist even in state-of-the-art systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Adam Tauman Kalai , Ofir Nachum , Santosh S. Vempala , Edwin Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various complex tasks, yet they still suffer from hallucinations. By incorporating and exploring external knowledge, such as knowledge graphs(KGs), LLM's ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qi Zhao , Hongyu Yang , Qi Song , Xinwei Yao , Xiangyang Li

Recent advancements in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in visual information understanding with human language. Despite these advances, LVLMs still face challenges with multimodal hallucination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zongbo Han , Zechen Bai , Haiyang Mei , Qianli Xu , Changqing Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to generating inaccurate or false information, often referred to as "hallucinations" or "confabulations." While several technical advancements have been made to detect hallucinated content by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hyo Jin Do , Rachel Ostrand , Werner Geyer , Keerthiram Murugesan , Dennis Wei , Justin Weisz

Hallucination is a long-standing problem that has been actively investigated in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing research commonly attributes hallucinations to technical limitations or sycophancy bias, where the latter means the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiangrui Liu , Man Luo , Agneet Chatterjee , Hua Wei , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

This paper primarily focuses on the hallucinations caused due to AI language models(LLMs).LLMs have shown extraordinary Language understanding and generation capabilities .Still it has major a disadvantage hallucinations which give outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sailesh kiran kurra , Shiek Ruksana , Vishal Borusu

In this paper, we investigate whether Large Language Models (LLMs) actively recall or retrieve their internal repositories of factual knowledge when faced with reasoning tasks. Through an analysis of LLMs' internal factual recall at each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yifei Wang , Yuheng Chen , Wanting Wen , Yu Sheng , Linjing Li , Daniel Dajun Zeng

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), plausible but factually inaccurate text, are often viewed as undesirable. However, recent work suggests that such outputs may hold creative potential. In this paper, we investigate whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Shuzhou Yuan , Zhan Qu , Ashish Yashwanth Kangen , Michael Färber

This paper introduces the first formal definition of valuable hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), addressing a gap in the existing literature. We provide a systematic definition and analysis of hallucination value, proposing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Qiucheng Chen , Bo Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are a promising venue for natural language understanding and generation tasks. However, current LLMs are far from reliable: they are prone to generate non-factual information and, more crucially, to contradict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Diego Calanzone , Stefano Teso , Antonio Vergari
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