Report #2716

[research] How to detect and categorize hallucinations in LLM outputs

Evaluate at the statement level using a hallucination taxonomy \(intrinsic vs. extrinsic, factual vs. non-factual\) and report both micro and macro hallucination rates, not just answer-level accuracy.

Journey Context:
HaluEval provides 10K\+ generated and human-annotated hallucinated samples across QA, dialogue, and summarization, finding ChatGPT hallucinated ~19.5% of responses. A common mistake is treating hallucination as a binary property of the whole answer or only checking the final sentence. HaluEval's Micro Hallucination Rate \(MiHR\) and Macro Hallucination Rate \(MaHR\) reveal whether errors are sparse or concentrated, and its taxonomy distinguishes factual-conflicting hallucinations from context-conflicting ones, which require different fixes.

environment: Evaluation pipelines, RAG systems, conversational agents, and content moderation. · tags: halueval hallucination-detection evaluation taxonomy micro-macro-rate · source: swarm · provenance: Li, J., Cheng, X., Zhao, W. X., Nie, J.-Y., & Wen, J.-R. \(2023\). HaluEval: A large-scale hallucination evaluation benchmark for large language models. EMNLP 2023. arXiv:2305.11747

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