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Recently developed large language models have achieved remarkable success in generating fluent and coherent text. However, these models often tend to 'hallucinate' which critically hampers their reliability. In this work, we address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Neeraj Varshney , Wenlin Yao , Hongming Zhang , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding.However, hallucination, where the model generates plausible yet incorrect outputs, persists as a significant and under-addressed challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianfeng Cai , Wengang Zhou , Zongmeng Zhang , Jiale Hong , Nianji Zhan , Houqiang Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable fluency across a range of natural language tasks, yet remain vulnerable to hallucinations - factual inaccuracies that undermine trust in real world deployment. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Kaushik Dwivedi , Padmanabh Patanjali Mishra

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) -- generations that are plausible but factually unfaithful -- remain a critical barrier to high-stakes deployment. Current detection methods typically rely on computationally expensive external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Manish Bhatt

Despite the remarkable ability of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in image comprehension, these models frequently generate plausible yet factually incorrect responses, a phenomenon known as hallucination.Recently, in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xiaoye Qu , Qiyuan Chen , Wei Wei , Jishuo Sun , Jianfeng Dong

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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Akshita Singh , Prabesh Paudel , Siddhartha Roy

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse natural language processing tasks, yet they remain susceptible to hallucinations -- generating content that is factually incorrect, unfaithful to provided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ahmed Cherif

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) whose aim is to suppress the echo originated from acoustic coupling between loudspeakers and microphones, plays a key role in voice interaction. Linear adaptive filter (AF) is always used for handling this…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lu Ma , Song Yang , Yaguang Gong , Xintian Wang , Zhongqin Wu

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet they frequently generate hallucinations outputs that are fluent but factually incorrect or unsupported. We propose Counterfactual Probing, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yijun Feng

Activation-based linear probing is widely proposed as a method for both detecting and correcting hallucinations in autoregressive language models. We present an empirical study across seven models spanning 117M to 7B parameters and three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dip Roy , Rajiv Misra , Sanjay Kumar Singh , Anisha Roy

Large language models (LLMs) produce fluent but unsupported answers - hallucinations - limiting safe deployment in high-stakes domains. We propose ECLIPSE, a framework that treats hallucination as a mismatch between a model's semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mainak Singha

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a key technique for leveraging external knowledge and reducing hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). However, RAG still struggles to fully prevent hallucinated responses. To address this, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xuzhao Geng , Haozhao Wang , Jun Wang , Wei Liu , Ruixuan Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often hallucinate objects that are not present in the input image, largely because visual grounding weakens as decoding progresses. Existing inference-time mitigation methods modify logits or hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Soumyadeep Jana , Pulkit Mittal , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language reasoning, yet they remain vulnerable to hallucination, where generated content deviates from visual evidence. Existing mitigation strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xingyu Zhu , Kesen Zhao , Liang Yi , Shuo Wang , Zhicai Wang , Beier Zhu , Hanwang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are prone to three types of hallucination: Input-Conflicting, Context-Conflicting and Fact-Conflicting hallucinations. The purpose of this study is to mitigate the different types of hallucination by exploiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ao Jia , Haiming Wu , Guohui Yao , Dawei Song , Songkun Ji , Yazhou Zhang

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

The use of transformer-based models is growing rapidly throughout society. With this growth, it is important to understand how they work, and in particular, how the attention mechanisms represent concepts. Though there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Nicholas Pochinkov , Ben Pasero , Skylar Shibayama

Hallucination in large language models (LLMs) remains a critical barrier to their safe deployment. For hallucination detection to be practical in real-world scenarios, the use of efficient small models is essential to ensure low latency and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zepeng Bao , Shen Zhou , Qiankun Pi , Jianhao Chen , Mayi Xu , Ming Zhong , Yuanyuan Zhu , Tieyun Qian

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but often hallucinate, confidently providing incorrect answers instead of admitting ignorance. Prior work has shown that models encode linear representations of their own…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wannan , Yang , Xinchi Qiu , Lei Yu , Yuchen Zhang , Aobo Yang , Narine Kokhlikyan , Nicola Cancedda , Diego Garcia-Olano