Mitigating LLM Hallucinations through Domain-Grounded Tiered Retrieval
Computational Unit, Z.H. College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, India(计算单元,Z.H. 工程技术学院,阿利加尔穆斯林大学,印度);Interdisciplinary Center for Artificial Intelligence, Aligarh Muslim University, India(跨学科人工智能中心,阿利加尔穆斯林大学,印度);Department of Computer Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India(计算机工程系,阿利加尔穆斯林大学,印度)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented fluency but remain susceptible to "hallucinations" - the generation of factually incorrect or ungrounded content. This limitation is particularly critical in high-stakes domains where reliability is paramount. We propose a domain-grounded tiered retrieval and verification architecture designed to systematically intercept factual inaccuracies by shifting LLMs from stochastic pattern-matchers to verified truth-seekers. The proposed framework utilizes a four-phase, self-regulating pipeline implemented via LangGraph: (I) Intrinsic Verification with Early-Exit logic to optimize compute, (II) Adaptive Search Routing utilizing a Domain Detector to target subject-specific archives, (III) Refined Context Filtering (RCF) to eliminate non-essential or distracting information, and (IV) Extrinsic Regeneration followed by atomic claim-level verification. The system was evaluated across 650 queries from five diverse benchmarks: TimeQA v2, FreshQA v2, HaluEval General, MMLU Global Facts, and TruthfulQA. Empirical results demonstrate that the pipeline consistently outperforms zero-shot baselines across all environments. Win rates peaked at 83.7% in TimeQA v2 and 78.0% in MMLU Global Facts, confirming high efficacy in domains requiring granular temporal and numerical precision. Groundedness scores remained robustly stable between 78.8% and 86.4% across factual-answer rows. While the architecture provides a robust fail-safe for misinformation, a persistent failure mode of "False-Premise Overclaiming" was identified. These findings provide a detailed empirical characterization of multi-stage RAG behavior and suggest that future work should prioritize pre-retrieval "answerability" nodes to further bridge the reliability gap in conversational AI.
Hallucination-Resistant Relation Extraction via Dependency-Aware Sentence Simplification and Two-tiered Hierarchical Refinement
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);University of California San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团)
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)
NTS-CoT: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLM-based News Timeline Summarization with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Central South University(中南大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);Suzhou Aerospace Information Research Institute(苏州空天信息研究院);McGill University(麦吉尔大学)
Whispers that Shake Foundations: Analyzing and Mitigating False Premise Hallucinations in Large Language Models
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);Hunan Normal University(湖南师范大学)
Mitigating Behavioral Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models for Sequential Images
Provable Responsible AI and Data Analytics (PRADA) Lab(可证明负责任的人工智能与数据分析实验室);King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(国王阿卜杜勒阿齐兹大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(中国电子科学技术大学);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学)
Mitigating Large Language Model Hallucinations via Autonomous Knowledge Graph-based Retrofitting
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院软件研究所);State Key Laboratory of Computer Science(计算机科学国家重点实验室);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
MHSA: A Lightweight Framework for Mitigating Hallucinations via Steered Attention in LVLMs
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Tsinghua University, Tencent(清华大学腾讯);Tencent(腾讯);University of Science and Technology Beijing(北京科技大学);University of Macau(澳门大学)
Mitigating Hallucination Through Theory-Consistent Symmetric Multimodal Preference Optimization
Shandong University(山东大学);Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学);University of Georgia(佐治亚大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳))
Prescribing the Right Remedy: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Targeted Instruction Tuning
Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining(北京交通大数据分析与挖掘重点实验室);Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学);School of Information Technology and Management(信息科学技术学院)
Mitigating Multilingual Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
School of Computer Science & Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学计算机科学与技术学院);School of Computing Science and Technology, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机科学技术学院);Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University(北京大学王选计算机研究所);School of Computing Science and Technology, Zhejiang Gongshang University(浙江工商大学计算机科学与技术学院);Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学计算机科学与工程学系)
MedHallTune: An Instruction-Tuning Benchmark for Mitigating Medical Hallucination in Vision-Language Models
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Institute of Medical Intelligence and XR, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学医学智能与XR研究所);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
Mitigating Geospatial Knowledge Hallucination in Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Dynamic Factuality Aligning
College of AI, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能学院);Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University(清华大学电子工程系);School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学电子信息学院);Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学与技术系)
TruthPrInt: Mitigating Large Vision-Language Models Object Hallucination Via Latent Truthful-Guided Pre-Intervention
Drexel University(德雷塞尔大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科学与技术大学(广州));LLNL(劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室);Lehigh University(莱斯大学)
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)
SeeMe: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Effective Visual Token Engineering
State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学计算机科学学院多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));De Artificial Intelligence Lab(德人工智能实验室)