| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that large language models generate responses that sound plausible but contradict factual knowledge, a phenomenon known as hallucination. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to align large language models to evaluate knowledge boundaries based on external knowledge to reduce hallucinations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces hallucinations across six benchmarks using foundation LLMs of varying backbones and scales. |
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