Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, but they remain susceptible to hallucinations--generating content that appears plausible but contains factual inaccuracies. We present Finch-Zk, a black-box framework that leverages fine-grained cross-model consistency to detect and mitigate hallucinations in LLM outputs without requiring external knowledge sources. Finch-Zk introduces two key innovations: 1) a cross-model consistency checking strategy that reveals fine-grained inaccuracies by comparing responses generated by diverse models from semantically-equivalent prompts, and 2) a targeted mitigation technique that applies precise corrections to problematic segments while preserving accurate content. Experiments on the FELM dataset show Finch-Zk improves hallucination detection F1 scores by 6-39\% compared to existing approaches. For mitigation, Finch-Zk achieves up to 9 absolute percentage points improvement in answer accuracy on the GPQA-diamond dataset when applied to state-of-the-art models like Llama 4 Maverick and Claude 4 Sonnet. Extensive evaluation on multiple datasets demonstrates that Finch-Zk provides a practical, deployment-ready safeguard for enhancing factual reliability in production LLM systems.
In-Context Sharpness as Alerts: An Inner Representation Perspective for Hallucination Mitigation
City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Penn State University(宾夕法尼亚州立大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学)
Mitigating Hallucination in Large Language Models: A Capability-Oriented Survey on RAG, Reasoning, and Agentic Systems
Electronic Information School, Wuhan University(武汉大学电子信息学院);School of Computing, Dublin City University(都柏林城市大学计算机学院);School of Public Health, Wuhan University(武汉大学公共卫生学院);Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway(Galway大学数据分析研究中心);Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University(都柏林城市大学数据分析研究中心)
Towards Mitigation of Hallucination for LLM-empowered Agents: Progressive Generalization Bound Exploration and Watchdog Monitor
College of Computer Science, Nankai University(南开大学计算机科学学院);Haihe Lab of ITAI College of intelligent Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University of Technology(内蒙古工业大学智能科学与技术学院海河实验室);Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University(石溪大学电气与计算机工程系);Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University(密歇根技术大学计算机科学系)
An Evolutionary Large Language Model for Hallucination Mitigation
BIOSTIM Laboratory Faculty of Medicine Salah Boubnider University Constantine, Algeria(BIOSTIM实验室医学院萨拉赫·布宾德大学阿尔及利亚科纳克特);Department of IFA Faculty of NTIC Abdelhamid Mehri University Constantine, Algeria(IFA部门NTIC学院阿卜杜勒哈米德·梅赫里大学阿尔及利亚科纳克特)
Steering LVLMs via Sparse Autoencoder for Hallucination Mitigation
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University(东南大学计算机科学与工程学院);Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University)(东南大学新一代人工智能技术及其交叉应用关键实验室);Foundation Model Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所基础模型研究中心);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学与技术系);Wuhan University of Technology(武汉理工大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Detection and Mitigation of Hallucination in Large Reasoning Models: A Mechanistic Perspective
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence(北京理工大学人工智能学院);Engineering Research Center of Next-Generation Intelligent Search and Recommendation(下一代智能搜索与推荐工程研究中心)
FG-PRM: Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Language Model Mathematical Reasoning
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas(德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校计算机科学系);Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Science, University of Michigen(密歇根大学电子工程与计算机科学系)
HAVE: Head-Adaptive Gating and ValuE Calibration for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Language Models
Xin Tong School of Information and Cyber Security People’s Public Security University of China(信息与网络安全学院 中国人民公安大学);Zhi Lin School of Safety Science Tsinghua University(安全科学学院 清华大学);Jingya Wang School of Information and Cyber Security People’s Public Security University of China(信息与网络安全学院 中国人民公安大学);Bo Jin* The Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security of China(公安部第三研究所)
HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Towards a Fine-Grained Model-Aware Hallucination Detection
HausaNLP(豪萨语自然语言处理研究组);University of Abuja(阿布贾大学);Bayero University Kano(卡诺贝罗大学);University of Pretoria(比勒陀利亚大学);Imperial College London(伦敦帝国学院);Northeastern University(东北大学)
Looking Back and Forth: Cross-Image Attention Calibration and Attentive Preference Learning for Multi-Image Hallucination Mitigation
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学深圳分校)
Cross-Modal Attention Calibration for LVLM Hallucination Mitigation
Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);Meituan(美团);Inspur Database Technology(Inspur数据库技术);Guilin University of Electronic Technology(桂林电子科技大学);Shenzhen Loop Area Institute(深圳河套学院);Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing(广东大数据分析与处理重点实验室)
HalluClear: Diagnosing, Evaluating and Mitigating Hallucinations in GUI Agents
MAIS&NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(自动化研究所人工智能与自然语言处理实验室,中国科学院);School of Artificial Intelligence, UCAS(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);Meituan(美团)
RSHallu: Dual-Mode Hallucination Evaluation for Remote-Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models with Domain-Tailored Mitigation
College of Computer Science, Chongqing University(重庆大学计算机科学学院);Heavy Rainfall Research Center of China(中国强降水研究中心);CMA Key Open Laboratory of Transforming Climate Resources to Economy, Chongqing Institute of Meteorological Sciences(中国气象局气候资源转化经济重点开放实验室、重庆气象科学研究院);Chongqing Metropolitan College of Science(重庆科学理工学院);School of Intelligence Science(智能科学学院);College of Artificial Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology(人工智能学院、哈尔滨工业大学);BNU-UIC Institute of Artificial Intelligence(北京师范大学-国际学院人工智能与未来网络研究院);Future Networks, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai(未来网络、北京师范大学珠海分校)