arXiv:2601.19918v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), i.e., plausible but non-factual generations, pose a significant challenge to reliable deployment in...
By Yitong Qiao, Licheng Pan, Yu Mi, Lei Liu, Yue Shen, Jian Wang, Jinjie Gu, Fei Sun, Zhixuan Chu
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:2608. 10430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed as AI agents frequently exhibit user specification-grounding failures, executing hallucinated, undesired actions to force a resolution rather than expressing uncertainty.
By Sanidhya Vijayvargiya, Rahul Lokesh
arXiv:2602.11166v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods are widely used to adapt large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks and are often assume...
By Xu Hu, Yifan Zhang, Songtao Wei, Chen Zhao, Qiannan Li, Bingzhe Li, Feng Chen
arXiv:2606. 12900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often hallucinate by generating factually incorrect or unfaithful content, posing significant risks to their safe use.
By Jiahao Yang, Shuhai Zhang, Hailong Kang, Feng Liu, Qi Chen, Mingkui Tan
arXiv:2608. 16353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Even well-aligned large language models confidently generate factually incorrect text, making hallucination a persistent reliability risk in high-stakes deployments.
By Zhihao Guo, Zonghan Wu, Huan Huo, DaYong Ye, Junwei Zhang, Weiran Yao, Zhiwei Liu, Qingsong Wen, Yilei Shao
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
The paper introduces DescaPE, a decoding framework that uses internal model signals to reduce hallucinations in large language models. By identifying a factual‑salient layer span and training a lightweight probe to approximate its signal, DescaPE penalizes high‑risk continuations and rewards factually grounded ones during inference. Experiments on five factuality benchmarks across three LLMs show that DescaPE improves factuality with only a 1.10× latency overhead.
By Hayeong Ryu, JungMin Yun, Byeonggeuk Lim, Sunhee Jo, YoungBin Kim
arXiv:2607. 10476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for retrieving knowledge through seamless, human-like interactions.
By Basel Abdeen, S M Tahmid Siddiqui, Meah Tahmeed Ahmed, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Punya Parag Modi, Ehab Al-Shaer
arXiv:2608. 03817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision--language models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong multimodal reasoning capabilities but remain prone to hallucination, where model predictions are not grounded in visual evidence.
By Amir Mohammad Ezzati, Kiyan Rezaee, Bardiya Kariminia, Mohamad Amin Yousefi, Asal Mohammadjafari Mamaqani, Behrad Samimi, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
arXiv:2606. 27679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probe-based uncertainty estimation (UE) has emerged as a prominent approach to detect hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by learning uncertainty from internal model signals.
By Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Quang Minh Nguyen, Duc Anh Vu, Anh Tuan Luu
The paper proposes using the temporal volatility of internal attention mechanisms—measured by an unsupervised attention dispersion metric—as a diagnostic signal for hallucinations in large language models. It demonstrates that spikes in attention entropy within intermediate layers correlate with reasoning breakdowns, and shows statistically significant AUC improvements of up to +0.076 over output-based baselines on GSM8K and MATH-500 benchmarks using the Qwen2.5 model family.
By Shardul P. More, Tanuja S. Pawar