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Neural Diversity Regularizes Hallucinations in Language Models

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arXiv:2510. 20690v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language models continue to hallucinate despite increases in parameters, compute, and data.

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Does Playing it Safe Count as Faithfulness? Reassessing LVLM Hallucination Mitigation Methods

The paper examines six inference-time hallucination mitigation methods applied to three large vision-language models across four benchmarks, including MMStar. It finds that reducing hallucination rates often comes at the cost of lower informativeness—such as decreased object recall, visual coverage, and response detail—and that gains on hallucination benchmarks do not consistently translate to improved performance on fine-grained perception and reasoning tasks. The authors argue that current evaluation protocols may overstate progress by favoring conservative generation, and propose that hallucination mitigation should be assessed as a trade-off among faithfulness, informativeness, and overall capability.

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