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Multimodal large language models achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but remain prone to hallucinations, where outputs are not grounded in visual inputs. This issue can be attributed to two main biases: text-visual bias, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Wang , Maying Shen , Nadine Chang , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li , Jose M. Alvarez

Hallucinations in LLMs present a critical barrier to their reliable usage. Existing research usually categorizes hallucination by their external properties rather than by the LLMs' underlying internal properties. This external focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Adi Simhi , Jonathan Herzig , Itay Itzhak , Dana Arad , Zorik Gekhman , Roi Reichart , Fazl Barez , Gabriel Stanovsky , Idan Szpektor , Yonatan Belinkov

Hallucinations in foundation models arise from autoregressive training objectives that prioritize token-likelihood optimization over epistemic accuracy, fostering overconfidence and poorly calibrated uncertainty. We define medical…

The increasing reliance on natural language generation (NLG) models, particularly large language models, has raised concerns about the reliability and accuracy of their outputs. A key challenge is hallucination, where models produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fan Xu , Xinyu Hu , Zhenghan Yu , Li Lin , Xu Zhang , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhou , Jinjie Gu , Xiaojun Wan

We investigate the problem of generating instructions to guide humans to navigate in simulated residential environments. A major issue with current models is hallucination: they generate references to actions or objects that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Lingjun Zhao , Khanh Nguyen , Hal Daumé

To mitigate hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), we propose a framework that focuses on errors induced by prompts. Our method extends a chain-style knowledge distillation approach by incorporating a programmable module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinbo Hao , Kai Yang , Qingzhen Su , Yifan Li , Chao Jiang

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

Hallucinations pose a significant obstacle to the reliability and widespread adoption of language models, yet their accurate measurement remains a persistent challenge. While many task- and domain-specific metrics have been proposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Atharva Kulkarni , Yuan Zhang , Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , Xiou Ge , Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Dhivya Piraviperumal , Swabha Swayamdipta , Hong Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes financial domains, yet they suffer from specific, reproducible hallucinations when performing arithmetic operations. Current mitigation strategies often treat the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Soham Mirajkar

Hallucination, i.e., generating factually incorrect content, remains a critical challenge for large language models (LLMs). We introduce TOHA, a TOpology-based HAllucination detector in the RAG setting, which leverages a topological…

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) have recently become a significant problem. A recent effort in this direction is a shared task at Semeval 2024 Task 6, SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Rahul Mehta , Andrew Hoblitzell , Jack O'Keefe , Hyeju Jang , Vasudeva Varma

Large language models demonstrate impressive results across diverse tasks but are still known to hallucinate, generating linguistically plausible but incorrect answers to questions. Uncertainty quantification has been proposed as a strategy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Edward Phillips , Sean Wu , Soheila Molaei , Danielle Belgrave , Anshul Thakur , David Clifton

The detection of sophisticated hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) is hampered by a ``Detection Dilemma'': methods probing internal states (Internal State Probing) excel at identifying factual inconsistencies but fail on logical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yusheng Song , Lirong Qiu , Xi Zhang , Zhihao Tang

Large language models confidently produce outdated answers, and no existing method can detect them. We show this is not an engineering failure but a structural one: temporal drift, whether a stored fact has changed since training, is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rania Elbadry , Ahmed Heakl , Fan Zhang , Dani Bouch , Yuxia Wang , Preslav Nakov , Zhuohan Xie

Hallucinations -- plausible yet erroneous outputs -- remain a critical barrier to reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs). We present the first systematic study linking hallucination incidence to internal-state drift induced by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zeyu Wei , Shuo Wang , Xiaohui Rong , Xuemin Liu , He Li

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

Existing hallucination detection methods for large language models (LLMs) rely on external verification at inference time, requiring gold answers, retrieval systems, or auxiliary judge models. We ask whether this external supervision can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shoaib Sadiq Salehmohamed , Jinal Prashant Thakkar , Hansika Aredla , Shaik Mohammed Omar , Shalmali Ayachit

When a language model asserts that "the capital of Australia is Sydney," does it know this is wrong? We characterize the geometry of correctness representations across 9 models from 5 architecture families. The structure is simple: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seonglae Cho , Zekun Wu , Kleyton Da Costa , Adriano Koshiyama

Large Language Models (LLMs) are optimized to produce distributionally plausible continuations rather than to explicitly verify whether generated propositions are entailed by source documents. This inductive bias enables generalization, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Paul Landes , Pranav Herur , Adam Cross , Jimeng Sun

Large language models hallucinate during multi-step reasoning, but most existing detectors operate at the trace level: they assign one confidence score to a full output, fail to localize the first error, and often require multiple sampled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tyler Alvarez , Ali Baheri