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First Hallucination Tokens Are Different from Conditional Ones

Created by
  • Haebom

Author

Jakob Snel, Seong Joon Oh

Outline

Detecting hallucinations in large-scale language models (LLMs) is crucial for building trust. Token-level detection allows for more granular interventions, but the distribution of hallucination signals across hallucination token sequences has not yet been studied. Using token-level annotations from the RAGTruth corpus, we found that the first hallucination token is significantly more easily detected than subsequent tokens. This structural characteristic is observed across various models, suggesting that the first hallucination token plays a crucial role in token-level hallucination detection.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We reveal that the initial hallucination token plays an important role in hallucination detection.
Provides new insights into token-level hallucination detection research.
Presenting insights that can be utilized in the development of future hallucination detection models.
Limitations:
Analysis performed based on the RAGTruth corpus.
Generalizability to different types of LLMs and tasks requires further research.
Additional factor studies are needed to gain a deeper understanding of the distribution of hallucinatory signals.
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