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From Architecture to Output: Structural Origins of Hallucination in Large Language Models and the Amplifying Role of Data

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arXiv:2606. 07537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models hallucinate--producing fluent, confident, factually wrong outputs--with a consistency that persists across generations and scales.

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