MUCH: A Multilingual Claim Hallucination Benchmark

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17081v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:37:16 GMT
• Title: MUCH: A Multilingual Claim Hallucination Benchmark
• Authors: Jérémie Dentan, Alexi Canesse, Davide Buscaldi, Aymen Shabou, Sonia Vanier,
• Abstract summary: Much is the first claim-level UQ benchmark designed for fair and reproducible evaluation of future methods.<n>It includes 4,873 samples across four European languages (English, French, Spanish, and German) and four instruction-tuned open-weight LLMs.
• Score: 5.6001617185032595
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Claim-level Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is a promising approach to mitigate the lack of reliability in Large Language Models (LLMs). We introduce MUCH, the first claim-level UQ benchmark designed for fair and reproducible evaluation of future methods under realistic conditions. It includes 4,873 samples across four European languages (English, French, Spanish, and German) and four instruction-tuned open-weight LLMs. Unlike prior claim-level benchmarks, we release 24 generation logits per token, facilitating the development of future white-box methods without re-generating data. Moreover, in contrast to previous benchmarks that rely on manual or LLM-based segmentation, we propose a new deterministic algorithm capable of segmenting claims using as little as 0.2% of the LLM generation time. This makes our segmentation approach suitable for real-time monitoring of LLM outputs, ensuring that MUCH evaluates UQ methods under realistic deployment constraints. Finally, our evaluations show that current methods still have substantial room for improvement in both performance and efficiency.

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