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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

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce fluent but factually incorrect responses, a phenomenon known as hallucination. Abstention, where the model chooses not to answer and instead outputs phrases such as "I don't know", is a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Vy Nguyen , Ziqi Xu , Jeffrey Chan , Estrid He , Feng Xia , Xiuzhen Zhang

Despite significant strides in factual reliability, errors -- often termed hallucinations -- remain a major concern for generative AI, especially as LLMs are increasingly expected to be helpful in more complex or nuanced setups. Yet even in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gal Yona , Mor Geva , Yossi Matias

Current Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) achieve remarkable progress, yet there remains significant uncertainty regarding their ability to accurately apprehend visual details, that is, in performing detailed captioning. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Bohan Zhai , Shijia Yang , Chenfeng Xu , Sheng Shen , Kurt Keutzer , Chunyuan Li , Manling Li

As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in clinical decision support, more than accuracy is required: knowing when to trust their predictions is equally critical. Yet, a comprehensive and systematic investigation into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ji Young Byun , Young-Jin Park , Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Asma Ben Abacha

Medical RAG systems in high-risk QA settings are often evaluated through a single answer-or-abstain decision, but mixed evidence may support one claim, require conditions for another, and contradict a third. We study claim-selective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shao Kan

Hallucinations remain a significant challenge in current Generative AI models, undermining trust in AI systems and their reliability. This study investigates how orchestrating multiple specialized Artificial Intelligent Agents can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Diego Gosmar , Deborah A. Dahl

Systematic reviews are essential for evidence-based medicine, but reviewing 1.5 million+ annual publications manually is infeasible. Current AI approaches suffer from hallucinations in systematic review tasks, with studies reporting rates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Duc Ngo , Arya Rahgoza

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit strong multimodal capabilities but remain vulnerable to hallucinations from intrinsic errors and adversarial attacks from external exploitations, limiting their reliability in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Chung-En Johnny Yu , Brian Jalaian , Nathaniel D. Bastian

Despite the widespread adoption of Vision-Language Understanding (VLU) benchmarks such as VQA v2, OKVQA, A-OKVQA, GQA, VCR, SWAG, and VisualCOMET, our analysis reveals a pervasive issue affecting their integrity: these benchmarks contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junzhang Liu , Zhecan Wang , Hammad Ayyubi , Haoxuan You , Chris Thomas , Rui Sun , Shih-Fu Chang , Kai-Wei Chang

Hallucinations in deployed language models can have real consequences for downstream decisions in domains such as healthcare, legal, and financial services. In production, detection has to run on what the deployed system can see: the query,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Javier Marín

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely adopted across various domains, yet their application in the medical field poses unique challenges, particularly concerning the generation of hallucinations. Hallucinations in open-ended long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zenan Huang , Mingwei Li , Zheng Zhou , Youxin Jiang

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs), limiting their widespread acceptance beyond chatbot applications. Despite ongoing efforts, hallucinations remain a prevalent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Cem Uluoglakci , Tugba Taskaya Temizel

Computer-use agents extend language models from text generation to persistent action over tools, files, and execution environments. Unlike chat systems, they maintain state across interactions and translate intermediate outputs into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunhao Feng , Yifan Ding , Yingshui Tan , Xingjun Ma , Yige Li , Yutao Wu , Yifeng Gao , Kun Zhai , Yanming Guo

Despite the state-of-the-art performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), these models often suffer from hallucinations, which can undermine their performance in critical applications. In this work, we propose SAFE, a novel method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Samir Abdaljalil , Filippo Pallucchini , Andrea Seveso , Hasan Kurban , Fabio Mercorio , Erchin Serpedin

Modality-conflict hallucination occurs when multimodal large language models (MLLMs) prioritize erroneous textual premises over contradictory visual evidence. To understand why visual evidence fails to prevail during generation, we take a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jinrui Jiang , Zhangtai Wu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Industry practitioners and academic researchers regularly use multi-agent systems to accelerate their work, but the applications through which users operate these systems do not provide a simple, unified mechanism for scalably managing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Christopher J. Agostino , Nayan D'Souza

Biomedical question answering (QA) requires accurate interpretation of complex medical knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in this domain, with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingpeng Ning , Yuanyuan Sun , Ling Luo , Yanhua Wang , Yuchen Pan , Hongfei Lin

While progress in GUI agents has been largely driven by industrial-scale training, ungrounded hallucinations often trigger cascading failures in real-world deployments.Unlike general VLM domains, the GUI agent field lacks a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chao Jin , Wenkui Yang , Hao Sun , Yuqi Liao , Qianyi Jiang , Kai Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Huaibo Huang

Large Language Models frequently generate fluent but factually incorrect text. We propose Adaptive Activation Cancellation (AAC), a real-time inference-time framework that treats hallucination-associated neural activations as structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eric Yocam , Varghese Vaidyan , Gurcan Comert , Paris Kalathas , Yong Wang , Judith L. Mwakalonge