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First Hallucination Tokens Are Different from Conditional Ones

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  • Haebom

Author

Jakob Snel, Seong Joon Oh

Outline

Hallucinations in large-scale language models (LLMs) are a critical issue for ensuring reliability, and token-level hallucination detection has been a recent research focus. This paper analyzes the distribution of hallucination signals within hallucination token sequences. Using token-level annotations from the RAGTruth corpus, we find that the first hallucination token is significantly more easily detected than subsequent tokens. This structural characteristic is consistent across models, suggesting that the first hallucination token plays a crucial role in token-level hallucination detection.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We found that the first hallucination token played the most important role in hallucination detection.
When developing a token-level hallucination detection model, it may be effective to focus on the first hallucination token.
Suggesting generalizability by showing the same tendency across multiple models.
Limitations:
Analysis based on a specific corpus (RAGTruth) may require generalization to other datasets.
Further analysis of the distribution of hallucinatory signals at the token level may be necessary.
Further research is needed to verify the practical application and performance of the proposed methodology.
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