Papers with uncertainty-based method
Enhancing Uncertainty-Based Hallucination Detection with Stronger Focus (2023.emnlp-main)
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Tianhang Zhang, Lin Qiu, Qipeng Guo, Cheng Deng, Yue Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Chenghu Zhou, Xinbing Wang, Luoyi Fu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for detecting hallucinations in LLMs rely on external knowledge for reference retrieval or require sampling multiple responses for consistency verification. |
| Approach: | They propose a reference-free, uncertainty-based method for detecting hallucinations in Large Language Models that imitates human focus in factuality checking from three aspects: focus on the most informative keywords; focus on unreliable tokens in historical context; focus of token properties such as token type and token frequency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance across all evaluation metrics and eliminates the need for additional information. |