Challenge: Existing methods to detect hallucinations in large language models lack nuanced understanding of their types and manifestations.
Approach: They propose a taxonomy that categorizes hallucinations into six types . they propose an augmented model to detect and mitigate hallucinosity in a fine-grained manner .
Outcome: The proposed model detects and mitigates hallucinations in a fine-grained manner . it significantly boosts the performance of LLMs on GSM8K and MATH benchmarks.

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