A New Benchmark and Reverse Validation Method for Passage-level Hallucination Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06498v2
• Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:37:10 GMT
• Title: A New Benchmark and Reverse Validation Method for Passage-level Hallucination Detection
• Authors: Shiping Yang, Renliang Sun, Xiaojun Wan
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) generate hallucinations, which can cause significant damage when deployed for mission-critical tasks. We propose a self-check approach based on reverse validation to detect factual errors automatically in a zero-resource fashion. We empirically evaluate our method and existing zero-resource detection methods on two datasets.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown their ability to collaborate effectively with humans in real-world scenarios. However, LLMs are apt to generate hallucinations, i.e., makeup incorrect text and unverified information, which can cause significant damage when deployed for mission-critical tasks. In this paper, we propose a self-check approach based on reverse validation to detect factual errors automatically in a zero-resource fashion. To facilitate future studies and assess different methods, we construct a hallucination detection benchmark named PHD, which is generated by ChatGPT and annotated by human annotators. Contrasting previous studies of zero-resource hallucination detection, our method and benchmark concentrate on passage-level detection instead of sentence-level. We empirically evaluate our method and existing zero-resource detection methods on two datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method considerably outperforms the baselines while costing fewer tokens and less time. Furthermore, we manually analyze some hallucination cases that LLM failed to capture, revealing the shared limitation of zero-resource methods.

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