DHI: Leveraging Diverse Hallucination Induction for Enhanced Contrastive Factuality Control in Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01156v1
• Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:55:41 GMT
• Title: DHI: Leveraging Diverse Hallucination Induction for Enhanced Contrastive Factuality Control in Large Language Models
• Authors: Jiani Guo, Xiangke Zeng, Jie Wu, Zuchao Li,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce inaccurate or fabricated information, known as "hallucinations"<n>We propose DHI (Diverse Hallucination Induction), a novel training framework that generates a broader range of hallucinations without relying on pre-annotated data.<n> DHI achieves significant performance gains over other contrastive decoding-based approaches across multiple hallucination benchmarks.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce inaccurate or fabricated information, known as "hallucinations," which compromises their reliability. Existing approaches often train an "Evil LLM" to deliberately generate hallucinations on curated datasets, using these induced hallucinations to guide contrastive decoding against a reliable "positive model" for hallucination mitigation. However, this strategy is limited by the narrow diversity of hallucinations induced, as Evil LLMs trained on specific error types tend to reproduce only these particular patterns, thereby restricting their overall effectiveness. To address these limitations, we propose DHI (Diverse Hallucination Induction), a novel training framework that enables the Evil LLM to generate a broader range of hallucination types without relying on pre-annotated hallucination data. DHI employs a modified loss function that down-weights the generation of specific factually correct tokens, encouraging the Evil LLM to produce diverse hallucinations at targeted positions while maintaining overall factual content. Additionally, we introduce a causal attention masking adaptation to reduce the impact of this penalization on the generation of subsequent tokens. During inference, we apply an adaptive rationality constraint that restricts contrastive decoding to tokens where the positive model exhibits high confidence, thereby avoiding unnecessary penalties on factually correct tokens. Extensive empirical results show that DHI achieves significant performance gains over other contrastive decoding-based approaches across multiple hallucination benchmarks.

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