PerHalluEval: Persian Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21104v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:50:46 GMT
• Title: PerHalluEval: Persian Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
• Abstract summary: PerHalluEval is the first dynamic hallucination evaluation benchmark tailored for the Persian language.<n>Our benchmark generates plausible answers and summaries regarding QA and summarization tasks.<n>We used the log probabilities of generated tokens to select the most believable hallucinated instances.
• Score: 2.049767929976436
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Hallucination is a persistent issue affecting all large language Models (LLMs), particularly within low-resource languages such as Persian. PerHalluEval (Persian Hallucination Evaluation) is the first dynamic hallucination evaluation benchmark tailored for the Persian language. Our benchmark leverages a three-stage LLM-driven pipeline, augmented with human validation, to generate plausible answers and summaries regarding QA and summarization tasks, focusing on detecting extrinsic and intrinsic hallucinations. Moreover, we used the log probabilities of generated tokens to select the most believable hallucinated instances. In addition, we engaged human annotators to highlight Persian-specific contexts in the QA dataset in order to evaluate LLMs' performance on content specifically related to Persian culture. Our evaluation of 12 LLMs, including open- and closed-source models using PerHalluEval, revealed that the models generally struggle in detecting hallucinated Persian text. We showed that providing external knowledge, i.e., the original document for the summarization task, could mitigate hallucination partially. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in terms of hallucination when comparing LLMs specifically trained for Persian with others.

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