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Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with dynamically changing knowledge and handling unknown static information. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is employed to tackle these challenges and has a significant impact on improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zile Qiao , Zhuo Chen , Guangyu Li , Feiteng Mu , Mengting Hu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

Although large language models (LLMs) store vast amount of knowledge in their parameters, they still have limitations in the memorization and utilization of certain knowledge, leading to undesired behaviors such as generating untruthful and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Moxin Li , Yong Zhao , Wenxuan Zhang , Shuaiyi Li , Wenya Xie , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua , Yang Deng

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive prowess in solving a wide range of tasks with world knowledge. However, it remains unclear how well LLMs are able to perceive their factual knowledge boundaries, particularly under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ruiyang Ren , Yuhao Wang , Yingqi Qu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jing Liu , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Ji-Rong Wen , Haifeng Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success, but their occasional content fabrication, or hallucination, limits their practical application. Hallucination arises because LLMs struggle to admit ignorance due to inadequate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Lida Chen , Zujie Liang , Xintao Wang , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Feng Wei , Jinglei Chen , Zhenghong Hao , Bing Han , Wei Wang

While understanding the knowledge boundaries of LLMs is crucial to prevent hallucination, research on the knowledge boundaries of LLMs has predominantly focused on English. In this work, we present the first study to analyze how LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Chenghao Xiao , Hou Pong Chan , Hao Zhang , Mahani Aljunied , Lidong Bing , Noura Al Moubayed , Yu Rong

Large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination stemming from misaligned self-awareness, particularly when processing queries exceeding their knowledge boundaries. While existing mitigation strategies employ uncertainty estimation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hang Zheng , Hongshen Xu , Yuncong Liu , Lu Chen , Pascale Fung , Kai Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used for knowledge-seeking yet suffer from hallucinations. The knowledge boundary (KB) of an LLM limits its factual understanding, beyond which it may begin to hallucinate. Investigating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhihua Wen , Zhiliang Tian , Zexin Jian , Zhen Huang , Pei Ke , Yifu Gao , Minlie Huang , Dongsheng Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) can be seen as compressed knowledge bases, but it remains unclear what knowledge they truly contain and how far their knowledge boundary extends. Existing benchmarks are mostly static and provide limited support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuheng Yang , Siqi Zhu , Tao Feng , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown a high capability in answering questions on a diverse range of topics. However, these models sometimes produce biased, ideologized or incorrect responses, limiting their applications if there is no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiaotian Zhou , Di Tang , Xiaofeng Wang , Xiaozhong Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, however, the emergence of content generation distortion (hallucination) limits their practical applications. The core cause of hallucination lies in LLMs' lack of awareness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haotian Sheng , Heyong Wang , Ming Hong , Hongman He , Junqiu Liu

Despite the advancements made in Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs), like text Large Language Models (LLMs), they have limitations in addressing questions that require real-time information or are knowledge-intensive. Indiscriminately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhuo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Geng , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

It is important for Large Language Models (LLMs) to be aware of the boundary of their knowledge, distinguishing queries they can confidently answer from those that lie beyond their capabilities. Such awareness enables models to perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lihu Chen , Gerard de Melo , Fabian M. Suchanek , Gaël Varoquaux

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to appropriately abstain from answering questions beyond their knowledge is crucial for mitigating hallucinations. While existing reinforcement learning methods foster autonomous abstention, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Cheng Gao , Cheng Huang , Kangyang Luo , Ziqing Qiao , Shuzheng Si , Huimin Chen , Chaojun Xiao , Maosong Sun

Knowledge augmentation has significantly enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, existing methods typically operate on the simplistic premise that model performance equates with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hao Chen , Ye He , Yuchun Fan , Yukun Yan , Zhenghao Liu , Qingfu Zhu , Maosong Sun , Wanxiang Che

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate inaccurate responses (hallucinations) when faced with questions beyond their knowledge scope. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses this by leveraging external knowledge, but a critical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haoxiang Jin , Ronghan Li , Zixiang Lu , Qiguang Miao

The explosive growth of scientific publications has created an urgent need for automated methods that facilitate knowledge synthesis and hypothesis generation. Literature-based discovery (LBD) addresses this challenge by uncovering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Andrej Kastrin , Bojan Cestnik , Nada Lavrač

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress but continue to face inherent challenges in multimodal reasoning, which requires multi-level (e.g., perception, reasoning) and multi-granular (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhitao He , Sandeep Polisetty , Zhiyuan Fan , Yuchen Huang , Shujin Wu , Yi R. Fung

In recent years, substantial advancements have been made in the development of large language models, achieving remarkable performance across diverse tasks. To evaluate the knowledge ability of language models, previous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xunjian Yin , Xu Zhang , Jie Ruan , Xiaojun Wan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive impact in the field of natural language processing, but they still struggle with several issues regarding, such as completeness, timeliness, faithfulness and adaptability. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xintao Wang , Qianwen Yang , Yongting Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Qianyu He , Zhouhong Gu , Yanghua Xiao , Wei Wang

In this paper, we propose Knowledge Base augmented Language Model (KBLaM), a new method for augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge. KBLaM works with a knowledge base (KB) constructed from a corpus of documents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xi Wang , Taketomo Isazawa , Liana Mikaelyan , James Hensman
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