Report #2722

[research] Need to detect hallucinations in a black-box API model without external database

Sample multiple answers to the same prompt and measure informational consistency across them \(SelfCheckGPT\); known facts converge across samples, hallucinated facts diverge.

Journey Context:
SelfCheckGPT is a zero-resource, black-box method that needs no token probabilities or external database. It outperformed grey-box baselines on sentence-level hallucination detection using BERTScore, QA overlap, NLI, or LLM prompting. Common mistakes are relying on token entropy \(hidden by most APIs\) or using a single deterministic generation. The trade-off is extra inference cost, but for black-box APIs this is often the only practical hallucination signal available.

environment: Black-box LLM APIs, no retrieval infrastructure, and low-resource monitoring. · tags: selfcheckgpt black-box consistency hallucination-detection zero-resource · source: swarm · provenance: Manakul, P., Liusie, A., & Gales, M. J. F. \(2023\). SelfCheckGPT: Zero-resource black-box hallucination detection for generative large language models. EMNLP 2023. arXiv:2303.08896

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