arXiv AI

Constrained Paraphrase Consistency for LLM Hallucination Detection

arXiv:2606. 08158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate factually inconsistent claims, motivating accurate and scalable hallucination detectors.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

Evidence-Aligned Entity Verification for Hallucination Detection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces Evidence-Aligned Entity Verification (EAEV), a method for detecting entity-level hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). EAEV aligns generated entities with retrieved evidence across three dimensions and uses counterfactual stability analysis to maintain robust alignments when evidence changes. Experiments on multiple RAG benchmarks show that EAEV consistently outperforms existing hallucination detection methods and generalizes well.

By Runsong Jia, Zhen Fang, Mengjia Wu, Jie Lu, Yi Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

BEACON: Behavioral Entropy Aggregation for Cross-Model Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 07528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hallucination in large language models (LLMs), defined as the generation of factually incorrect or unsupported content, remains a critical barrier to reliable deployment.

By Naveen Bera, Pulijala Sai Nikhila, Kondaguduru Abhiram, Shaik Gayaz Ali, Shoaib Sadiq Salehmohamed, Shaik Mohammed Omar, Jinal Prashant Thakkar, Hansika Aredla, Shalmali Ayachit
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Retrieval-augmented Decoding for Improving Truthfulness in Open-ended Generation

The paper introduces Retrieval-Augmented Decoding (RAD), a decoding-time method that improves the truthfulness of large language models without retraining. RAD uses a small reference set of up to ten annotated examples to build a grounding space of context embeddings and next-token logits, which it retrieves and aggregates during inference to shape the model’s output. Experiments on four open-ended generation benchmarks and four different LLMs show that RAD consistently outperforms strong baselines and generalizes well across tasks.

By Manh Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Hung Le
arXiv AI
Sep 25

R-DEIM Net: An Efficient Rationale-Augmented Dual-Expert Interaction Model for Paraphrase Detection

R-DEIM Net is a 76‑million‑parameter dual‑expert model designed for paraphrase detection that balances accuracy with computational efficiency. It combines an Interaction Expert, which captures token‑level similarity via multi‑scale 2D convolutions and attention, with a Reasoning Expert that generates human‑readable rationales using a Flan‑T5‑small decoder. On the Quora Question Pairs dataset, the model attains 90.07% accuracy and 90.16% F1‑score, matching strong transformer baselines while producing auxiliary rationales.

By Pushp, Vaibhav Prajapati, Himangshu Sarma