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Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly undermine their reliability, motivating researchers to explore the causes of hallucination. However, most studies primarily focus on the language aspect rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhangqi Jiang , Junkai Chen , Beier Zhu , Tingjin Luo , Yankun Shen , Xu Yang

Hallucination remains one of the key obstacles to the reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs), particularly in real-world applications. Among various mitigation strategies, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yihan Li , Xiyuan Fu , Ghanshyam Verma , Paul Buitelaar , Mingming Liu

We propose a lightweight and single-pass uncertainty quantification method for detecting hallucinations in Large Language Models. The method uses attention matrices to estimate uncertainty without requiring repeated sampling or external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Gijs van Dijk

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on factoid question answering, they are still prone to hallucination and untruthful responses, particularly when tasks demand information outside their parametric…

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate incorrect or unsupported content, known as hallucinations. Existing detection methods rely on heuristics or simple models over isolated computational traces such as activations, or attention maps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fabrizio Frasca , Guy Bar-Shalom , Yftah Ziser , Haggai Maron

Hallucination has emerged as a significant barrier to the effective application of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a novel Attention-Guided SElf-Reflection (AGSER) approach for zero-shot hallucination detection in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Qiang Liu , Xinlong Chen , Yue Ding , Bowen Song , Weiqiang Wang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Gradient signals in LLM training are highly anisotropic: recurrent linguistic structure concentrates energy into a small set of dominant spectral directions, while context specific information resides in a long tail. We show that this spike…

Small Vision-Language Models (SVLMs) are efficient task controllers but often suffer from visual brittleness and poor tool orchestration. They typically require expensive supervised trajectory tuning to mitigate these deficits. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ashutosh Bajpai , Tamal Majumder , Akshay Nambi , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Rapid progress in large vision-language models (LVLMs) has achieved unprecedented performance in vision-language tasks. However, due to the strong prior of large language models (LLMs) and misaligned attention across modalities, LVLMs often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu , Shanshan Yu , Satoshi Munakata , Koichi Shirahata

As LLM-powered chatbots are increasingly deployed in mental health services, detecting hallucinations and omissions has become critical for user safety. However, state-of-the-art LLM-as-a-judge methods often fail in high-risk healthcare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Khizar Hussain , Bradley A. Malin , Zhijun Yin , Susannah Leigh Rose , Murat Kantarcioglu

Large language models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate and produce factual errors, yet our understanding of why they make these errors remains limited. In this study, we delve into the underlying mechanisms of LLM hallucinations from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shiqi Chen , Miao Xiong , Junteng Liu , Zhengxuan Wu , Teng Xiao , Siyang Gao , Junxian He

Concerns regarding the propensity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce inaccurate outputs, also known as hallucinations, have escalated. Detecting them is vital for ensuring the reliability of applications relying on LLM-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Ernesto Quevedo , Jorge Yero , Rachel Koerner , Pablo Rivas , Tomas Cerny

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) offer transformative potential for high-stakes domains like finance and law, but their tendency to hallucinate, generating factually incorrect or unsupported content, poses a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ahmad Pesaranghader , Erin Li

While many capabilities of language models (LMs) improve with increased training budget, the influence of scale on hallucinations is not yet fully understood. Hallucinations come in many forms, and there is no universally accepted…

This paper introduces fourteen novel datasets for the evaluation of Large Language Models' safety in the context of enterprise tasks. A method was devised to evaluate a model's safety, as determined by its ability to follow instructions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 David Nadeau , Mike Kroutikov , Karen McNeil , Simon Baribeau

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate plausible but non-factual content, a phenomenon known as hallucination. While existing detection methods typically rely on computationally expensive sampling-based consistency checks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Dan Wilson , Mohamed Akrout

Detecting content that contradicts or is unsupported by a given source text is a critical challenge for the safe deployment of generative language models. We introduce HALT-RAG, a post-hoc verification system designed to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Saumya Goswami , Siddharth Kurra

Hallucination remains a critical barrier for deploying large language models (LLMs) in reliability-sensitive applications. Existing detection methods largely fall into two categories: factuality checking, which is fundamentally constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jinxin Li , Gang Tu , ShengYu Cheng , Junjie Hu , Jinting Wang , Rui Chen , Zhilong Zhou , Dongbo Shan

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in diverse cross-modal tasks. However, object hallucination, where models produce plausible but inaccurate object descriptions, remains a significant challenge. In contrast to previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yiyang Huang , Liang Shi , Yitian Zhang , Yi Xu , Yun Fu

As large language models (LLMs) become more integral to society and technology, ensuring their safety becomes essential. Jailbreak attacks exploit vulnerabilities to bypass safety guardrails, posing a significant threat. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiaomeng Hu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho