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HalluLens: LLM Hallucination Benchmark

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Bang, Yejin, Ji, Ziwei, Schelten, Alan, Hartshorn, Anthony, Fowler, Tara, Zhang, Cheng, Cancedda, Nicola, Fung, Pascale·2025·Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Yejin Bang, Ziwei Ji, Alan Schelten, Anthony Hartshorn, Tara Fowler, Cheng Zhang, Nicola Cancedda, Pascale Fung. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

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  • Bang et al. (2025) found that the model has sufficient knowledge to identify non-existing entities.

    “Bang et al. (2025) had a similar observation by investigating the model's abstention behavior across mixed or completely fabricated entities, and found that the model has sufficient knowledge to identify non-existing entities.”

    From HalluHard: A Hard Multi-Turn Hallucination Benchmark (2026) · cites this paper as Bang et al. (2025)

    The paper’s discussion of place-frequency results (section headed “Lower values indicate better performance”; page unavailable) says models may have sufficient knowledge to identify non-existing entities associated with high-frequency places. It also says they are more uncertain about middle-frequency places. The NonExistentRefusal results (C.3.1–C.3.2; pages unavailable) show substantial variation across models and tasks, so the unqualified conclusion about identifying non-existing entities overstates the finding. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • A clean test of in-parameter groundedness is whether models appropriately abstain when asked about non-existent entities or items.

    “Beyond answerable questions, a clean test of in-parameter groundedness is whether models appropriately abstain when asked about non-existent entities or items (Bang et al., 2025; Kirichenko et al., 2025).”

    From HalluHard: A Hard Multi-Turn Hallucination Benchmark (2026) · cites this paper as Bang et al., 2025

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Bang, Y., Ji, Z., Schelten, A., Hartshorn, A., Fowler, T., Zhang, C., Cancedda, N., & Fung, P.
Affiliations
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
Venue
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2025
Pages
24128-24156
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
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W4412945166
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2026: 32 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 1
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en
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
large language model hallucination, hallucination benchmark, hallucination detection, benchmark design

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