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Large language models have demonstrated impressive performance across many domains of mathematics and physics. One natural question is whether such models can support research in highly abstract theoretical fields such as quantum field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xingyang Yu , Yinghuan Zhang , Yufei Zhang , Zijun Cui

Hallucinations -- plausible but factually incorrect responses -- pose a major challenge to the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially in multi-step or agentic settings. Existing work largely frames hallucinations as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Emanuele Ricco , Elia Onofri , Lorenzo Cima , Stefano Cresci , Roberto Di Pietro

Despite their remarkable progress in multimodal understanding tasks, large vision language models (LVLMs) often suffer from "hallucinations", generating texts misaligned with the visual context. Existing methods aimed at reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Sreetama Sarkar , Yue Che , Alex Gavin , Peter A. Beerel , Souvik Kundu

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) are outputs that are syntactically coherent but factually incorrect or contextually inconsistent. They are persistent obstacles in high-stakes industrial settings such as engineering design,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Brian Freeman , Adam Kicklighter , Matt Erdman , Zach Gordon

We introduce a proxy-analyzer framework for detecting hallucinations in large language models. Instead of looking inside the generating model, our system reads already-generated text through a small locally hosted open-weight model and…

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Relation extraction (RE) enables the construction of structured knowledge for many downstream applications. While large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in this task, they often struggle to reliably determine whether a…

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We test whether a geometric hallucination taxonomy -- classifying failures as center-drift (Type~1), wrong-well convergence (Type~2), or coverage gaps (Type~3) -- can distinguish hallucination types through controlled induction in GPT-2.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Matic Korun

Hallucination in large language models (LLMs) can be detected by assessing the uncertainty of model outputs, typically measured using entropy. Semantic entropy (SE) enhances traditional entropy estimation by quantifying uncertainty at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dang Nguyen , Ali Payani , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

This paper introduces Helix, a distributed system for high-throughput, low-latency large language model (LLM) serving in heterogeneous GPU clusters. The key idea behind Helix is to formulate inference computation of LLMs over heterogeneous…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) possess a remarkable capacity to generate persuasive and intelligible language. However, coherence does not equate to truthfulness, as the responses often contain subtle hallucinations. Existing benchmarks are…

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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) often struggle with geometric reasoning due to visual hallucinations and a lack of mathematically precise Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data. To address this, we propose the GeoSym Engine, an automated and scalable…

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Semantic Tube Prediction (STP) leverages representation geometric to regularize LLM hidden-state trajectories toward locally linear geodesics during fine-tuning, thereby greatly improving data efficiency. The original STP recipe samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yidi Yuan

Vision-language models (VLMs) have transformed multimodal reasoning, but feeding hundreds of visual patch tokens into LLMs incurs quadratic computational costs, straining memory and context windows. Traditional approaches face a trade-off:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jusheng Zhang , Xiaoyang Guo , Kaitong Cai , Qinhan Lv , Yijia Fan , Wenhao Chai , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

Despite their impressive ability to generate high-quality and fluent text, generative large language models (LLMs) also produce hallucinations: statements that are misaligned with established world knowledge or provided input context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Abhilasha Ravichander , Shrusti Ghela , David Wadden , Yejin Choi

We propose semantic entropy probes (SEPs), a cheap and reliable method for uncertainty quantification in Large Language Models (LLMs). Hallucinations, which are plausible-sounding but factually incorrect and arbitrary model generations,…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising progress for generating Register Transfer Level (RTL) hardware designs, largely because they can rapidly propose alternative architectural realizations. However, single-shot LLM generation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shiva Ahir , Prajna Bhat , Alex Doboli

Recent methodologies utilizing synthetic datasets have aimed to address inconsistent hallucinations in large language models (LLMs); however,these approaches are primarily tailored to specific tasks, limiting their generalizability.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xinxin You , Xien Liu , Qixin Sun , Huan Zhang , Kaiyin Zhou , Shaohui Liu , GuoPing Hu , ShiJin Wang , Si Liu , Ji Wu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks such as image captioning but remain prone to object hallucinations, where they describe objects that do not appear in the image. To mitigate this, we propose LISA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhihui Guo , Xin Man , Hui Xu , Jie Shao , Zhiguo Jiang , Xianchao Zhang , Heng Tao Shen

LLMs still struggle with hallucination, especially when confronted with symbolic triggers like modifiers, negation, numbers, exceptions, and named entities. Yet, we lack a clear understanding of where these symbolic hallucinations…

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