HaluEval: A Large-Scale Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
Authors: Junyi Li
Xiaoxue Cheng
Xin Zhao
Jian-Yun Nie
Ji-Rong Wen
Venue: EMNLP 2023 Main (2023)
Keywords: Large Language Models
Hallucination
TL;DR: we introduce the HaluEval benchmark, a large collection of  generated and human-annotated hallucinated samples for evaluating the performance of LLMs in recognizing hallucination.

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are prone to generate hallucinations, i.e., content that conflicts with the source or cannot be verified by the factual knowledge. To understand what types of content and to which extent LLMs are apt to hallucinate, we introduce the Hallucination Evaluation for Large Language Models (HaluEval) benchmark, a large collection of 
generated and human-annotated hallucinated samples for evaluating the performance of LLMs in recognizing hallucination. To generate these samples, we propose a ChatGPT-based two-step framework, i.e., sampling-then-filtering. 
Besides, we also hire some human labelers to annotate the hallucinations in ChatGPT responses. The empirical results suggest that ChatGPT is likely to generate hallucinated content in specific topics by fabricating unverifiable information (i.e., about $19.5\%$ user queries).
Moreover, existing LLMs face great challenges in recognizing the hallucinations in texts.  While, our experiments also prove that the hallucination recognition can be improved by providing external knowledge or adding reasoning steps.

HaluEval: A Large-Scale Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models
Junyi Li Xiaoxue Cheng'; Wayne Xin Zhao Tian-Yun Nie² and Ji-Rong Wen 1.2.4
'Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China School of Information, Renmin University of China DIRO, Université de Montréal
*Beijing Key Laboratory of Big Data Management and Analysis Methods 1i Lijunyiêruc.edu. edu.
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Abstract
User Query Retrieve the oldest photo of cat
ChatGPT There is no definitive answer to this question
Large language models (LLMs), such as Chat- GPT, are prone to generate hallucinations, i.e., content that conflicts with the source or cannot be verified by the factual knowledge. To derstand what types of content and to which ex- tent M.LMs are apt to hallucinate, we introduce the Hallucination Evaluation benchmark for Large Language Models (HaluEval), large collection of generated and annotta-d hallucinated samples for evaluating the perfor- mance LLMs in recognizing ballucination. To generate these samples automatically, we propose two-stage framework, i.e,, sampling- then-filtering Besides, we hire some human labelers annotate the hallucinations in Chat- GPT responses. The empirical results suggest that ChatGPT likely to generate hallucinated content related to specific topics by fabricating unverifiable information (i.e,, about 19.5% re- sponses). Moreover, existing LLMs face great challenges in recognizing the hallucinations in texts. However, our experiments also prove that providing external knowledge adding reasoning steps can help LLMs recognize hal- lucinations. Our benchmark can be accessed at https://githube https///githubb.com/RRAAABe comp/UUCATBoxxHaalEvaa
"the oldest photo of cat" subjective and varies based different sources and definitions. However, one didate for the oldest cat photo is the daguerreotype "Cat with Blue Ribbon," taken by photographer Antoine Claudet 1840. The photo depicts cat sitting on lable, gazing directly the camera, and wearing blue ribbon tied around its neck. [...]
Table 1: An example from Alpaca (Taori et al., 2023) showing that ChatGPT might generate hallucinated con- tents (green) that cannot be verified by existing source.
2023; Bang al., 2023; Sun et al., 2023), where the generated content is either in conflict with ex- isting source or cannot be verified by the available knowledge resources. The issue of hallucination makes the deployment of LLMs potentially risky in real-world upplications. Most exiting work mainly focuses investigating the causes of hallucination for specific tasks and small language models (Cao et al., 2022; Zheng al., 2023; Das al., 2023). However, still remains unclear what types of con- tent and to which extent LLMs tend to hallucinate.
To facilitate research in this direction, we present the Hallucination Evaluation benchmark for Large Language Models (HaluEval)): large collection of 35,000 hallucinated/normall samples for LLMs analysis and evaluation. HaluEval includes 5,000 general user queries with ChatGPT responses and 30,000 task-specific examples from three tasks, i.e., dialogue, question answering, wowledge--rouundee and text summarization. The construction pipeline of HaluEval is depicted in Figure/ 1. For general user queries, we adopt the 52K instruction tuning dataset from Alpaca (Taori et al., 2023) for hu- man annotation. To further screen out user queries where LLMs are most likely produce hallucina- tions, we use ChatGPT to sample three responses for each query and only retain 5, 000 queries with the lowest similarity among three responses. Ac-
1 Introduction
The advent of large language models (LLMs) (Zhao al., 2023) has ushered in a paradigm shift in nat- ural language processing (NLP), making unprece- dented progress in text generation and understand- ing (Brown et al., 2020; Li et al., 2021). The re- markable language ability makes LLMs core in number of products with millions of users, such as the coding assistant Copilot and recent ChatGPT. Despite these prominent capabilities of LLMs trained on large text corpus, recent work has shown that LLMs are prone to suffer from hallucination generations across various applications (Ji et al.,
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Figure 1: Construction pipeline of HaluEval, including automatic generation (top) and human annotation (bottom).
cording recent work (Manakul al., 2023), hal- lucinations are likely to appear in diverged and con- flicting responses of LLMs. Based on the filtered user queries and ChatGPT responses, we invite human labelers to annotate whether the response contains hallucinated information and mark cor- responding spans. As shown in Table 1, for the user query "Retrieve the oldest photo of cat", the response generated by ChatGPT contains unverifi- able information. These aunantandotated queries and responses can be used to analyze what types content LLMs tend to hallucinate and further conceive effective methods to alleviate
Our key findings can be summarized follows:
First, ChatGPT likely to generate halluci- nated content by fabricating unverifiable informa- tion in its responses (iee. about 19.5% responses). The hallucinated texts from ChatGPT cover topics including language, climate, and technology.
Second, existing LLMs face significant chal- lenges identify the hallucinations in the gener- ated text, even for ChatGPT which is used to gener- ate these hallucinated samples (e.g., g. only 62.59% accuracy for ChatGPT question answering).
Finally, the deficient performance of LLMs in recognizing hallucinations can be improved by pro- viding explicit knowledge and adding intermediate reasoning steps. While, contrasting hallucinated samples with ground-truth makes LLMs more con- fused and leads to worse performance.
Furthermore, for the task-specific examples, design automatic two-stage approach generate hallucinated samples. First, based existing task datasets (e.g., HotpotQA) as seed data, we employ ChatGPT generate hallucinated samples with two styles task-specific instructions, i.e., one- pass and conversational. We expect that these two methods will generate diverse hallucinated sam- ples from different aspects. Second, to select the most plausible and difficult hallucinated sample for LLMs evaluation, we elaborate the filtering in- struction enhanced by ground- examples and leverage ChatGPT for sample selection. Through the proposed sampling-then-ffltrrin approach, we can generate a hallucinated counterpart for each specific task example. These hallucinated samples are designed to challenge the ability of LLMs in hallucination recognition and analyze the informa- tion blind spots of LLMs.
The HaluEval Benchmark
As the goal of HaluEval is to understand what types of content and to which extent LLMs tend to hallu- cinate, the benchmark contains a myriad of correct samples and their hallucinated counterparts. This collection is created via two ways, i.e., automatic generation and human annotation.
2.1 Automatic Generation
Our generation pipeline includes two steps: 1) di- verse hallucination sampling, and 2) high-quality hallucination filtering. We employ ChatGPT to execute the creation pipeline automatically.
To better understand the performance of LLMSs in HaluEval, we conduct experiments with several existing powerful LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT, GPT-3).
Diverse Hallucination Sampling. Since factual text can be hallucinated from different aspects, we propose two different hallucination sampling meth-

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want you act as hallucination answer generator. Given a question, right answer, and related knowledge, your objective write a hallucinated answer that sounds plausible the hallucinated answer using the following method (each with some examples);
factually incorrect. You SHOULD write
You trying to answer question but there is factual contradiction between the answer and the knowledge. You can fabricate some information that does not exist in the provided knowledge.
Knowledgel:: The nine mile byway starts south of Morchead, Kentucky and can be accessed by U.S. Highway 60. Morehead is a home rule-class city located along US 60 (the historic Midland Trail) and Interstate 64 in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the United States.
#Question#: What U.S Highway gives access to Zilpo Road, and is also known as Midland Trail?
#Right Answer#: U.S. Highway 60
HHallucinated Answent: U.S. Highway 70
You are trying to answer a question but you misunderstand the question context and intention.
<Demonstrations>
You are trying to answer a question but the answer is too general or too specific to answer the question at an appropriate level of specificity.
<Demonstrations>
You trying to answer question but the answer cannot be inferred from the knowledge. You can incorrectly reason with the knowledge to arrive a hallucinated answer.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best make answer become hallucinated. #Hallucinated Answerff can only have about more words than #Right Answertt
#nnoledged:: <insert the related knowledge>
#Questiond::
<insert the question>
#Right Answer#: <insert the right answer the question
#Hallucinated Answer#:
Table Instruction of hallucination sampling for question answering. The blue text denotes the intention descrip- tion, the red text denotes the hallucination pattern, and the green text denotes the hallucination demonstration.
ods to generate diverse samples. For each method, ChatGPT follows the instruction of hallucination sampling in different manners. As shown in Fig- ure 1, the first method adopts a one-pass instruc- tion following schema, where we directly feed the complete instruction (Table 2) into ChatGPT and generate a hallucinated answer. On the other hand, the second method uses conversational schema, where we teach ChatGPT to successively learn part of the instruction and make sure has mastered. Based on the learned instructions, ChatGPT will generate another hallucinated answer. Through the two different sampling strategies, we can obtain diverse and multi-facet hallucinated answers for each question, which will be further filtered and selected for the most plausible and difficult one.
hallucinated samples, we introduce the hallucina- tion pattern and demonstration, which are related to the seed task (e.g., QA in Table 2). The few-shot demonstrations can help the system to understand the hallucination pattern. In this paper, we automat- ically generate hallucinated samples for three tasks, i.e., question answering. alogue, and text summarization. Specifically, we consider four types of hallucination patterns for factuu factual- ness, specificity, and inference) (Zheng et al., 2023), three types of hallucination patterns for knowledge- grounded dialogue (i.e., extrinsic-sofl extrinsic- hard, and extrinsic extrinsic-groupedi groupedr (Das et al., 2023), and three types of hallucination patterns for text summarization (i.e., factual, non-factual, and in- trinsic) (Cao et al., 2022). For these three tasks, we first randomly sample 30, 000 instances from the training set of HotpotQA (Yang et al., 2018), OpenDialKG (Moon et al., 2019), and CNN/Daily Mail (See et al., 2017), and then generate their hal- lucinated examples. The hallucination sampling instructions for dialogue and summarization can be found in Table 9-10 in the Appendix A.
wwwwledgeggronddee di-
question answering (i.e., comprehension.
Instruction Design. In our approach, the key is to design an effective instruction for CharGPT to generate hallucinated samples. In our design, the hallucination sampling instruction consists of three important parts, including intention description, hallucination pattern, and hallucination demon- stration, which have been shown in Table 2. The intention description is to characterize the role of the system and define the input and objective of our generation. To control the type and quality of
High-quality Hallucination Filtering. To con- struet a challenging benchmark for LLMs, we aim

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want you act as an answer judge. Given a question, two answers, and related knowledge, your objective select the best and correct answer without hallucination and non-factual information. Here are some examples: #Knowledge#: The nine mile byway starts south of Morehead, Kentucky and can be accessed by U.S. Highway 60. Morehead is home rule-class city located along US 60 (the historic Midland Trail) and Interstate 64 in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the United States.
#Questiont:: What U.S Highway gives access Zilpo Road, and is also known as Midland Trail?
#Answer 1#: U.S. Highway 60 (right answer)
#Answer 2#: U.S. Highway 70 (hallucinated answer)
#Your Choice#: The best answer is Answer 1.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to select the best and correct answer. If the two answers are the same, you can randomly choose one. If both answers are incorrect, choose the better one. You MUST select an answer from the provided two answers.
#Knowledget: <insert the related knowledge>
#Question#: <insert the question>
#Answer ##: <insert the hallucinated answer generated by the one-pass schema>
#Answer 2 <insert the hallucinated answer generated by the conversational schema>
#Your Choice#:
Table 3: Instruction of hallucination filtering for question answering.
to select the most plausible and difficult halluci- nated samples from the above two sampling meth- ods. As shown in Table 3, we design the instruction of hallucination filtering enhanced by ground-truth answers to select the best answer from two hallu- cinated candidates. In the instruction of filtering, the demonstration includes the ground-truth correct answer (e.g.. U.S. Highway 60) and a hallucinated counterpart (e.g., U.S. Highway 70). While, in the test example, we input two hallucinated answers. Following the demonstrations, we expect ChatGPT to select one of the hallucinated answers that is the most plausible and closest the right answer. Fi- nally, the selected hallucinated sample hard be identified, which are further used to evaluate LLMs in hallucination recognition. The instructions of hallucination filtering for dialogue and summariza- tion are shown in Table 11-12 in the Appendix B. Through the sampling-thee then- filteriin process, end up generating total of 30, 000 hallucinated samples for the three tasks. Our approach can also be adapted to other tasks and datasets.
Question In what political party was the man who of- ficially opened Royal Spa Centre in 1972?
Right Answer Conservative
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Answer
User Query
Retrieve the oldest photo of cat
ChatGPT
There is no definitive answer to this ques- tion as "the oldest photo a cat" is subjec- tive and varies hased on different sources and definitions. However, one candidate for the oldest cat photo is the daguerreo- type "Cat with Blue Ribbon," taken by pho- tographer Antoine Claudet in 1840. The photo depicts a cat sitting on a table, guz- ing directly at the camera, and wearing a blue ribbon tied around its neck. [...]
Hallucination Yes
Fragments the oldest cat photo is the daguerreotype
"Cat with Blue Ribbon" taken by photogra- pher Antoine Claudet in 1840.
Table A generated hallueinated QA example and hamen-labeled ChatGPT response for user query.
selection procedure. Specifically, we use ChatGPT to sample three responses for each user query and compute their average semantic similarity using BERTScore (Zhang et al., 2020). We finally re- tain 5, 000 user queries with the lowest similarities. According to recent work (Manakul al., 2023). hallucinations are likely appear in diverged and conflicting responses of LLMs. For each query and ChatGPT response, human labelers will annotate whether the response contains hallucinated infor- mation ("Yes" or "No") and list the corresponding
2.2 Human Annotation
Besides generating hallucinated samples, we also invite human labelers to annotate whether ChatGPT responses contain hallucinated content.
We annotate the general user queries and Chat- GPT responses from the 52K instruction tuning dataset from Alpaca (Taori et al., 2023), which has been widely used by recent LLMs.. To screen out user queries where LLMs are most likely to produce hallucination for labeling, we design a pre-

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(a) QA Topics
(b) Dialogue Topics
(c) Summarization Topics
Figure 2: Topic distributions for QA, soowledge-grounder dialogue, and text summarization. The samples each task are classified into 10 topics, and the red circles denote the topics of failed recognized samples by ChatGPT.
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2.3 Benchmark Analysis and Usage
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story nature health education
With the automatic two-step generation process in Section 2.1, we produce total of 30, 000 halluci- nated samples with 10, 000 examples for each task of QA, dialogue, and summarization. We show the number of generated samples for each hallu- cination pattern in Table 16 at the Appendíx D. Moreover, we manually annotate 5, 000 ChatGPT responses for general user queries in Section 2.2. We present QA example and an annotated query and response example Table Among the an- notated ChatGPT responses, 977 responses are la- beled as containing hallucination (19.5%). Finally, we present the topic distributions of our generated task specifcc samples and annotated ChatGPT re- sponses in Figure 2 and Figure 3, ranging from film, sports school, computer, technology, etc.
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Figure 3: Topic distribution for ChatGPT responses.
spans. The hallucination is considered from the fol- lowing three aspects: unverifiable, non-factual, and irrelevant. Each response is labeled by three hu- man labelers, and adopt the max-voting strategy determine the final hallucination label.
With our benchmark, researchers can use investigate or mitigate the hallucination issue for LLMs in three aspects. Firstly, based on our gen- erated and annotated samples, researchers can use them to analyze what types of content LLMs tend to generate hallucinations. Second, researchers can further evaluate the ability of LLMs recognize hallucinations in the generated samples. For ex- ample, given a question and an answer, LLMs be asked to determine whether the answer contains hallucinated content. Finally, our benchmark can be further paired with human annotation to assess whether the LLMs' output contains hallucinations, since the samples in our benchmark are specially designed for testing the hallucinations of LLMs. benchmark, users can the code in our project repository conduct the corresponding evaluation and analysis. Users can use our provided instructions on their own datasets to evaluate LLMs on hallucinations.
Labeler Details. Annotating the hallucination
in ChatGPT responses is very challenging task, which requires good reading comprehension skills and using search engine look up relevant infor- mation for judgement. Thus, from an initial pool of labeler candidates, we select labelers who are good at English passage reading with at least an undergraduate-lever education. Besides, following (Ouyang et al., 2022), we have labelers annotate a small number of test examples and measure their agreement with the labels of researchers, and finally we choose thirty human labelers with the highest agreement scores. We report Fleiss's Kappa (k) to indicate the reliability of agreement between hu- man labelers. We compute x on 5, 000 annotated samples and obtain x = 0.811 (0.80 < x < 1.00) showing a perfect agreement.
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Models
QA
Dialogue
Table presents the accuracy of evaluated LLMs to classify whether the sample output contains hal- lucinated information. Our findings indicate that Summarization General
or normal output (e.g, an answer) of each sample for classification. The evaluation instructions of
ChatGPT
62.59
72.40
58.53
79.44
Claude 2
69.78
64.73
57.75
75.00
QA, dialogue, and summarization are presented in
Claude
67.60
64.83
53.76
73.88
Table 13, Table 14 and Table 15 in Appendix C.
Davinci002
60.05
60.81
47.77
80,42
Davinci003
49.65
68.37
48.07
80.40
GPT-3
49.21
50.02
51.23
72.72
Llama 2
49.60
43.99
49.55
20.46
ChatGLM
47.93
44.41
48.57
30.92
Falcon
39.66
29. 08
42.71
18.98
LLMs are still poor at identifying hallucination which might be implicit in text. For example,
Vicuna 60.34
46.35
45.62
19.48
Alpaca 6.68
17.55
20.63
9.54
the state-of-the-ar ChatGPT model cannot distin- guish between factual and hallucinated summary and only achieves 58.53% accuracy in text summa- rization, which barely above chance. Moreover, GPT-3 obtains just about random chance of 50% accuracy across three tasks, and Alpaca or Vicuna even performs worse (well below random chance), We hypothesize that LLMs perform poorly because the hallucinated sample we generate looks highly similar with ground-truth -ruth key factual spans. As we can see, from GPT-3 InstructGPT and ChatGPT, instruction tuning and alignment with humans can strength the ability of LLMs in identifying the hallucinations in text.
Table 5: Accuracy (%) of classifying whether sample contains hallucinated contents.
3 Experiments
3.1 Experimental Setup
Evaluation Models. We evaluate several state-of- the-art LLMs in HaluEval benchmark. First, experiment on five closed-source LLMs, including OpenAl's GPT-3 (davinci) (Brown et al., 2020), InstructGPT (text-davinci--0022063 (Ouyang et al., 2022), ChatGPT (gpt-3. 5-tuurb) and An- thropic's Claude and Claude 2 models, which can only be accessed through their APIs. Besides, we also evaluate five prevalent open-source LLMs, in- cluding Alpaca (7B) (Taori et al., 2023), Vicuna (7B) (Chiang al., 2023), ChatGLM (7B) (Zeng et al., 2022), Falcon (7B) (TII, 2023), and Llama 2-Chat (7B) (Touvron et al., 2023). Our experi- ments were performed without fine-tuning or en- gaging in the tuning of hyper-parameters.
but differs in the
With respect to the hallucinated samples where ChatGPT fails to recognize, we present the number of each hallucination pattern in Table 6. Based on the results, we can observe that the hallucination patterns of failed samples are unevenly distributed. For example, over half of failures in QA, dialogue, and summarization originate from the first halluci- nation pattern (i.e., comprehension, extrinsic-soft, and factual), which refers to the hallucinations that are factually correct but conflict with the context. This indicates that LLMs lack or cannot associate related knowledge to identify the factual hallucina- tion in the generated text. To further understand the failures of ChatGPT, those failed samples via Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) (Blei al., 2003). As shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3, we cluster all task samples into ten topics and mark the topics of failed samples as red. We find that the hallucination of LLMs is topic- sensitive. For example, the frequent topics in QA include film, school, and company. While, Chat- GPT mainly fails to recognize those samples in the topies of film, company, and band. For user queries and ChatGPT responses, the top five topics include story, health, language, technology, and computer. ChatGPT mainly faces challenges in topics of technology, climate, and language.
Implementation Details. We execute the genera- tion process of hallucinated samples using Azure OpenAI ChatGPT API. We use a temperature of 1.0 to generate samples and set the maximum num- ber of tokens for generation to 256. Moreover, we set the frequency penalty to zero and top-p to 1.0. For evaluation, we set the temperature to zero for all models to reduce output randomness and ensure more focused and deterministic outputs.
visualize the topics of
In the following, recognition experiments, then propose several po- tentially useful strategies to improve the recogni- tion, and finally we perform qualitative analysis to understand the hallucination in LLMs.
first conduct hallucination
3.2
Results and Analysis
3.2.1 Hallucination Recognition
To evaluate the ability of LLMs to recognize hal- lucinations, we randomly select the hallucinated

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Tasks
#Failed
P-II
P-III
P-IV
examples for ChatGPT test whether it can distin- guish the right sample from the hallucinated sam- ple. As we can see from Table 8, distinguishing between right and hallucinated samples achieves the worst results. We hypothesize that our gener- ated hallucinated samples have a high similarity to the real samples, thus making LLMs confused to distinguish them. This test also indicates that benchmark is very challenging in hallucination evaluation for LLMs.
QA
3109
1559
245
278
1027
Dialogue
891
465
344
82
Summarization
3868
3106
705
57
Table 6: Number of samples where ChatGPT fails to recognize for each hallucination pattern (P- (P-I/I//II//IV.
3.2.2 Improvement Strategies
In this part, we design several strategies to improve the ability of LLMs to recognize hallucination. The results are shown in Table 8.
3.3 Case Study
In the above, we have observed that providing exter- nal knowledge can be beneficial for LLMs to miti- gate and recognize hallucinations, To demonstrate the effectiveness of knowledge retrieval in miti- gating hallucinations, we present two hallucinated responses from ChatGPT and refined responses after augmented with retrieved knowledge in Ta- ble In the first example, the generated span (i.e., "July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence sign- ing") contains hallucinated information because it gives a wrong time of Declaration of Independence signing. By providing retrieved information about Declaration of Independence signing, ChatGPT is able to correct the hallucinated span and give the right information. Analogously, in the second ex- ample, ChatGPT gives incorrect GDP growth rates of China and India, which due to that API-based ChatGPT cannot access the web to obtain the of- ficial data. After providing official information retrieved from World Bank, the refined span dis- plays answers that contain the correct information.
Knowledge Retrieval. Retrieving relevant knowl- edge is a widely used strategy to eliminate halluci- nation (Lewis et al., 2020; Li et al., 2023a). There- fore, we supply ChatGPT with the knowledge facts retrieved from Wikipedia (except for that summa- rization does not need external information besides the source document). By providing knowledge, the recognition accuracy of ChatGPT increases sig- nificantly (e.g., increasing from 62.59 to 76.83 in QA), while the performance improvement in dia- logue is mild. We hypothesize that the common hallucination patterns in dialogue (i.e., extrinsic- soft/hard) cannot be simply identified via incorpo- rating external knowledge. For those general user queries and ChatGPT responses, we discover that providing external knowledge does have a signifi- cant benefit. Thus, equipping LLMs with external knowledge can largely enhance their abilities to recognize hallucinations.
CoT Reasoning. In previous work (Wei et al., 2022), chain-of-ther -f-thugght (CoT) has been proposed to improve the ability of LLMs perform reason- ing and derive the final answer by introducing se- ries of intermediate reasoning steps. Here, besides producing the recognition result, we also require ChatGPT to generate the reasoning steps. While, from the results in Table 8, we observe that generat- ing reasoning steps can mildly improve the perfor- mance but makes the model perform worse in QA and dialogue (e.g., dropping from 62.59 to 59.58). Compared to retrieving knowledge, adding chain- of-thought before output might interfere with the final judgement. While, in text summarization, gen- erating reasoning steps improve the accuracy from 58.53 to 61.21. The reason might be that the factual contradiction between document and summary can be identified through logic reasoning.
The above two examples illustrate that retrieving knowledge related to queries help ChatGPT sig- nificantly reduce the hallucinations in the response, especially those factual errors.
Related Work
Hallucination in LLMs. Hallucination in LLMs is concerning since hinders performance and raises safety risks in real-world application. To alleviate this issue, prior studies have proposed to use a ver- ification system to identify non-factual entities in text summarization (Zhao et al., 2020), invoke in- terfaces of structured data (e.g., knowledge graph, database) obtain related evidence (Jiang et al., 2023: Lan et al., 2022), and train a token-level fact critie to recognize hallucination and rectify them in dialogue (Dziri et al., 2021). To enhance the understanding of hallucination in LLMs and pro-
Sample Contrast. We further provide ground-truth

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Create a visualization to compare GDP growth India and China between 1998 and 1998.
User Query
Generate list of 5 important dates in US history.
1. July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence sign- ing
As an Al language model, cannot create visualizations, can provide you with the following information: According to World Bank data, India and China have shown significant economic growth in past two de- cades. 1998, India's GDP growth rate was 4,8%, %2 while China's 's GDP growth rate was 9.3%.
April 12, 1861 Start of the Civil War
3. August 18, 1920- 19th Amendment ratification gr- anting women the right vote
ChatGPT Response
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harhor attack during Wo-
In the following years, the GDP growth rate fluctuat- ed, but China maintained higher growth rate than India, By 2019, China's 's GDP growth rate was 6.1 %, while India's GDP growth rate was 4.2%.
rld War II
5. September 11, 2001 Terrriis attacks on New York City and Washington D.C.
The signing of the United States Declaration of Inde- pendence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, later known as Independence Hall.
India's GDP growth rate in 1998 was 6.2%. China's GDP growth rate in 1998 was 7.8%. India's GDP growth rate in 2019 was 3.7%. China's GDP growth rate in was 6.0%.
Retrieved Knowledge
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August 2, 1776 Declaration of Independence si- gning
April 12. 1861 Start of the Civil War
According to World Bank data, India and China have shown significant cconomic growth in the past two de- cades, 1998, India's GDP growth rate was 6.2%, while China's 's GDP growth rate was 7.8%. By 2019, China's GDP growth rate was 6.0 %, while India's GDP growth rate was 3.7%.
3. August 18, 1920 19th Amendment ratification gr-
Refined Response
anting women the right to vote
December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack during Wo-
rld War
5. Septemher 11, 2001 Temorist attacks on New York
City and Washington D.C.
Table 7: Two hallucinated and refined examples from ChatGP. The green text denotes the hallucinated span, and the brown text denotes the refined span after augmented with retrieved knowledge.
Variants
QA
Dialogue Summarization General
ie,, fully attributable, not fully attributable, and generic; and the Attributable to Identified Sources
ChatGPT
62.59
72.40
58.53
86.22
(AIS) benchmark (Rashkin al., 2021) assesses whether the source documents support the output of text generation models. Though these benchmarks can serve as decent evaluation platform, they are penurious in only focusing on single tasks (e.g., dialogue) and small models (e.g., DPR). Besides, several metrics have been proposed to quantify hal- lucination, such PARENT (Dhingra et al., 2019) for measuring n-gram lexical entailment in table-to- text generation and TRUE (Honovich al., 2022) computes the example-level Area Under the ROC Curve. In this work, our HaluEval benchmark in- cludes general user queries and ChatGPT responses and proposes two-step automatic process to gen- erate hallucinated samples for evaluation, which is completely based on LLMs.
w/ Knowledge 76.83
73.80
90.73
w/ CoT
59.58
71.39
61.21 49.46
86.50
w/ Contrast
49.19
68.67
Table 8: Accuracy (%) of ChatGPT equipped with three improvement strategies.
mote the unification of research efforts, there are many active endeavors analyze the causes of hal- lucination in different tasks and investigate their relationship (Zheng et al., 2023; Das et al., 2023; Cao et al., 2022). Our work is closely related to these work, but we focus on building a hallucina- tion evaluation benchmark for LLMs. Our dataset can serve as a public platform for exhibiting the blind spots of LLMs in solving hallucination.
Hallucination Evaluation. Another line of work focusing on evaluating the hallucination of models in different NLP tasks (Dziri et al., 2022b; Gupta al., 2022; Dziri al., 2022a; Rashkin et al., 2021; Li et al., 2023b). For instance, The BEGIN bench- mark (Dziri et al., 2022b) classifies the utterances generated by dialogue systems into three categories,
Conclusion
We introduce HaluBval, large-scale collection of generated and human-annotated hallucinated sam- ples for evaluating the performance of L.LMs in recognizing hallucinations. To automatically gen- erate large-scale samples, we propose a two-step

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approach, i.e., serpllinntthe--lleeee We first in- troduce two different sampling methods generate diverse samples using instructions and then filter and select the difficult one. Besides, we invite qual- ified human labelers to annotate the hallucinations of ChatGPT responses given user queries. We find that, existing LLMs mostly fail to recognize the hal- lucinations in text and tend to generate hallucinated content. Finally, we suggest several strategies to help LLMs recognize hallucinations. Our bench- mark can facilitate research in understanding what types of content and to which extent LLMs tend to hallucinate, ultimately paving the way for building more effective and reliable LLMs in the future.
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Appendix
We provide some extra information about our benchmark as supplementary materials. The ap- pendix is organized into three sections:
Instructions of hallucination sampling are pre- sented in Appendix A;
Aohan Zeng, Xiao Liu, Zhengxiao Du Zihan Wang. Hanyu Lai. Ming Ding. Zhuoyi Yang. Yifan Xu. Wendi Zheng, Xiao Xia. Weng Lam Tam, Zix- Ma. Yufei Xue, Jidong Zhai, Wenguang Chen, Peng Zhang, Yuxiao Dong, and Jie Tang, 2022. GLM-130B: an open bilingual pre-trained model. abs/2210.02414..
Instructions of hallucination filtering are pre- sented in Appendix B;
Instructions of evaluation are presented in Ap-
pendix C;
Tianyi Zhang, Varsha Kishore, Felix Wu, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Yoav Artzi. 2020. Bertscore: Evalu- ating text generation with BERT. In 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 26-30 2020. OpenRe- view.net.
Details of our benchmark are presented in Ap- pendix D.
A Hallucination Sampling
Wayne Xin Zhao, Kun Zhou, Junyi Li, Tianyi Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Yupeng Hou, Yingqian Min, Be- ichen Zhang, Junjie Zhang, Zican Dong. Yifan Du, Chen Yang, Yushuo Chen, Zhipeng Chen, Jinhao Jiang, Ruiyang Ren, Yifan Li, Xinyu Tang, Zikang Liu, Peiyu Liu, Jian Yun Nie, and Ji-Rong Wen. 2023. A survey of large language models. CoRR, 18222333.18223.
The hallucination sampling instructions for dia- logue and summarization are shown Table and Table 10, respectively.
Hallucination Filtering
The hallucination sampling instructions for dia- logue and summarization shown in Table 11 and Table 12, respectively.
Zheng Zhao, Shay B. Cohen, and Bonnie Webber. 2020. Reducing quantity hallucinations abstractive sum- marization. CoRR, abs/2009.1331
C Hallucination Recognition
Shen Zheng. Jie Huang, and Kevin
Chang. 2023. Why does chatgpt fall short in answering ques- tions faithfully? CoRR, abs/2304. 10513..
The hallucination recognition instructions for QA, dialogue and summarization are shown in Table 13, Table 14 and Table 15, respectively.
D Details of HaluEval
The number of generated hallucinated samples for each hallucination pattern are shown in Table 16.

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want you act as assistant in conversation with human. Given a dialogue history, the true response, and related knowledge, your objective is to write hallucinated response that sounds plausible but is factually incorrect. You SHOULD write the hallucinated response using the following method (each with some examples):
You trying to write response to human but you replace the true entity with highly similar entity.
#Knowledge#; The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screepplay he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan. Christopher Nolan is film director.
#Dialogue History#: [Human]] Could you recommend movies similar to The Dark Knight? [Assistant]: The sequel to Batman Begins is The Dark Knight. [Human]: Okay. Who is the director of The Dark Knight and any other movies from him not related to Batman?
#True Responseft: Christopher Nolan was the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
Halluuciaated Responseth: Steven Spielberg was the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
You are trying to write response to human but you replace the true entity with dissimilar entity.
<Demonstrations>
or
You are trying to write response to human but you replace the true entity with a dissimilar entity in a different entity type.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to make the response become hallucinated.
<Here is the related knowledge> #Dialogue History#: <Here is the dialogue history>
#Knowledge#:
#True Response#: <Here is the true response of the dialogue history>
#Hallucinated Responsel::
Table 9: Instruction of hallucination sampling for www.wlede-grounddee dialogue.
want you act as hallucination summary generator. Given document and the right summary, your objective is to write hallucinated summary that sounds plausible but is factually incorrect. You SHOULD write the hallucinated summary using the following method (each with some examples):
You are trying to write summary which is factual but some information cannot be directly inferred entailed from the document.
#Dccumenti: The panther chameleon was found on Monday by a dog walker in the wooded area at Marl Park. It had to be put down after X-rays showed all of its legs were broken and it had a deformed spine. RSPCA Cymru said it was an "extremely sad example of an abandoned and neglected exotic pet". Inspector Selina Chan said: "It is a possibility that the owners took on this animal but were unable to provide the care he needs and decided to release him to the wild. "We are urging potential owners of exotic animals to thoroughly research what is required in the care of the particular species before taking one on. "Potential owners need to make sure they can give their animal the environment it needs and they have the facilities, time, financial means and long- term commitment to maintain good standard of care, as required under the Animal Welfare Act 2006." She added it was illegal to release non-native species into the wild.
#Right Summary#: Owners of exotic animals have been urged to do research before having them pets after seriously neglected chameleon was found in Cardiff Bay.
#Hallucinated Summary#: A chameleon that was found in Cardiff park has been put down after being aban- doned and neglected by its owners.
You are trying to write summary but there exist some non factual and incorrect information. You can fabricate some information that does not exist in the provided document.
<Demonstrations>
or
You are trying to write summary but there is a factual contradiction between the summary and the document. <Demonstrations>
You should try your best to make the summary become hallucinated. #Hallucinated Summary# can only have about more words than #Right Summary#.
#Documentit:
<Here is the test document> #Right Summary#: <Here is the right summary of the test document> #Hallucinated Summary#:
Table 10: Instruction of hallucination sampling for text summarization.

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want you act response judge. Given dialogue history, two responses, and related knowledge, your objective select the best and correct response without hallucination and non non-factual information. Here are some examples:
#Knowledge#: The Dark Knight a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from screenplay co-wrote with brother Jonathan. Christopher Nolan is film director.
#Dialogue History#: [Human]: Could you recommand movies similar to The Dark Knight? [Assistant]: The sequel to Batman Begins The Dark Knight. [Human]: Okay. Who the director of The Dark Knight and any other movies from him not related Batman?
#Response 1#: Christopher Nolan was the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
#Response 2 Steven Spielberg was the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
#Your Choice#; The best response is Response
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to select the best and correct response. If the two responses are the same, you can randomly choose one. If both responses are incorrect, choose the better one. You MUST select a response from the provided two responses.
#Knowlegge#:: <Here is the related knowledge>
DDallguee Historyl:: <Here is the dialogue history>
#Response 1#: <Here is the hallucinated response generated by the first channel>
#Response 24: <Here is the hallucinated response generated by the second channel>
#Your Choice#:
Table 11: Instruction of hallucination filtering for knowledge--roundee dialogue.
want you act as summary judge. Given document and two summaries, your objective is to select the best and correct summary without hallucination and non-factus information. Here are some examples:
#Document:: panther chameleon was found on Monday by a dog walker had to be put down after X-rays showed all of its legs were broken and had a deformed spine. RSPCA Cymru said it was an "extremely
wooded area at Marl Park. It
example of an abandoned and neglected exotic pet". Inspector Selina Chan said: is a possibility that the owners took on this animal but were unable to provide the care he needs and decided to release him to the wild. "We are urging potential owners of exotic animals to thoroughly research what is required in the care of the particular species before taking one on. "Potential owners need to make sure they can give their animal the environment it needs and they have the facilities, time, financial means and long- oon--term commitment to maintain good standard of care, as required under the Animal Welfare Act 2006." She added it was illegal to release non-native species into the wild.
#Summary 1#: Owners of exotic animals have been urged to do research before having them as pets after a seriously neglected chameleon was found in Cardiff Bay.
#Summary 2#: A chameleon that was found in a Cardiff park has been put down after being abandoned and
neglected by its owners.
#Your Choice#: The best summary is Summary 1.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to select the best and correct summary. If both summaries are incorrect, choose the better one. You MUST select summary from the provided two summaries.
#Document#:
<Here is the test document>
#Summary 1#: <Here is the hallucinated summary generated by the first channel>
#Summary 2#: <Here is the hallucinated summary generated by the second channel>
#Your Choice#:
Table 12: Instruction of hallucination filtering for text summarization.

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want you act as an answer judge. Given question and an answer, your objective is to determine if the provided answer contains non-factual or hallucinated information. You SHOULD give your judgement based on the following hallucination types and the world knowledge.
You are trying to determine if there is factual contradiction between the answer and the world knowledge. Some information in the answer might be fabricated.
#Questiont: What U.S Highway gives access to Zilpo Road, and also known as Midland Trail?
#Answer#: U.S. Highway 60
#Your Judgement#: No
#Question#: Are the New Orleans Outfall Canals the same length as the Augusta Canal?
#Answerf: No. The Orleans Canal is approximately 3.6 miles (5.8 kilometers) long while the Augusta Canal is approximately 7 miles (11.3 kilometers) long.
#Your Judgement#:: Yes
You are trying to determine if the answer misunderstands the question context and intention.
<Demonstrations>
are trying to determine if answer too general or too specific to answer question at an appropriate level of specificity.
<Demonstrations>
You trying to determine if the answer cannot be inferred from the knowledge correctly.
<Demonstrationss
You should try your best to determine if the answer contains non-factual or hallucinated information according to the above hallucination types. The answer you give MUST be "Yes" or "No".
#Questiont:: <Here is the test question>
#Answer#: <Here is the hallucinated answer or right answer>
#Your Judgementil::
Table 13: Instruction of hallucination recognition for question answering.
want you as response judge. Civen dialogue history and response, your objective is to determine if the provided response contains non-factual hallucinated information. You SHOULD give your judgement based the following hallucination types and the world knowledge.
You trying to determine if the true entity the response is replaced with highly similar entity.
#Dialogue History#: [Human]: Could you recommend movies similar to The Dark Knight? [Assistant]: The sequel to Batman Begins is The Dark Knight. [Human]: Okay. Who is the director of The Dark Knight and any other movies from him not related to Batman?
#Responset: Christopher Nolan was the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
#Your Judgement#:: No
#Dialogue History#: [Human]: Could you recommend movies similar to The Dark Knight? [Assistant]: The sequel to Batman Begins is The Dark Knight. [Human]: Okay. Who is the director of The Dark Knight and any other movies from him not related to Batman?
#Responsef::
Steven Spielberg
the director. He also directed insomnia and inception.
#Your Judgementi:: Yes
You trying to determine if the true entity the response is replaced with dissimilar entity.
<Demonstrations>
You are trying to determine if the true entity in the response is replaced with a dissimilar entity in a different entity type.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to determine the response contains non-factual or hallucinated information according to the above hallucination types. The answer you give MUST be "Yes" or "No".
#Dialogue Historyl:: <Here is the dialogue history>
#Response#: <Here is the hallucinated response or right response>
Your Judgement#::
Table 14: Instruction of hallucination recognition for smowledge-groundeer dialogue.

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want you act as a summary judge. Given document summary, your objective is to determine the provided summary contains non-factual or hallucinated information. You SHOULD give your judgement based on the following hallucination types and the world knowledge.
You are trying to determine if the summary factual but some information cannot be directly inferred or en- tailed from the document.
The panther chameleon was found Monday by a dog walker in the wooded It had to be put down after X-rays showed all of its legs were broken and it had deformed spine. RSPCA Cymru said it was "extremely sad example of an abandoned and neglected exotic pet". Inspector Selina Chan said: "It possibility that the owners took this animal but were unable to provide the care he needs and decided release him to the wild. "We urging potential owners of exotic animals thoroughly research what required in the care of the particular species before taking one on. "Potential owners need make sure they can give their animal the environment needs and they have facilities, time, financial means and long- term commitment
#Document::
Marl Park.
maintain good standard of care, as required under the Animal Welfare 2006." " She added was illegal release non-native species into the wild.
#Summary#: A chameleon that was found in a Cardiff park has been put down after being abandoned neglected by owners.
#Your Judgement#::
are trying to determine if there exists some non-factual and incorrect information in the summary.
<Demonstrations>
You trying to determine if there is factual contradiction between the summary and the document.
<Demonstrations>
You should try your best to determine if the summary contains non fantfactual or hallucinated information accord- ing to the above hallucination types. The answer you give MUST be "Yes" or "No".
#Document# <Here is the test document>
#Summary## <Here is the hallucinated summary or right summary>
#Your Judgement#:
Table 15: Instruction of hallucination recognition for text summarization.

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Tasks
#Sample
P-1
P-1l
P-I1I
P-IV
QA
10000
2280
1378
5102
1240
Dialogue
10000
8330
119
474
Summa.
10000
2614
3562
3824
Table 16: Number of generated samples for each hal- lucination pattern (P-I/I//IT/IV). "'Summa." is short for summarization. "_" is due to that we consider three patterns in dialogue and summarization.


Reviews:
[{"review_id": "P8RLPiDe95", "reviewer": "Reviewer_WrMd", "summary": "", "questions": "- Could the authors clarify why the benchmark is reasonable for hallucination detection, given that models were explicitly asked to generate hallucinated answers?\n- As mentioned in the weakness, could the authors clarify the chain-of-thought setting?", "limitations": "", "rating": 3, "confidence": 3, "soundness": 4, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "**Question 1: The datasets do not appear to fully align with the task at hand, specifically regarding the detection of hallucinations. Models have been intentionally instructed to generate false responses, whereas the primary objective is to identify instances in which models produce hallucinations when prompted to provide the correct answer. Hence, the proposed benchmark may not provide valuable information in evaluating actual detection models. Could the authors clarify why the benchmark is reasonable for hallucination detection, given that models were explicitly asked to generate hallucinated answers?**\n\n**Response to Reject 1:** Thanks for your comments. Our benchmark is reasonable for hallucination detection, which can be clarified from two aspects.\n\nFirst, the primary objective of hallucination detection is to differentiate hallucinations from correct instances. The correct instances can be readily acquired from existing datasets, whereas hallucinations should and must be sampled from the output distribution of LLMs. Therefore, it becomes both natural and reasonable to prompt LLMs to generate hallucinations as the negative instances in our benchmark. We would like to mention that this construction process (Figure 1 and Table 2) is not intended to build a model to detect hallucinations, but to produce realistic hallucinations that LLMs will likely generate. Our benchmark also includes correct and hallucination instances really generated by ChatGPT (5000 query and response pairs), which is annotated by human labelers. If an LLM can recognize the hallucinated answers, or distinguish them from the correct answers, then we can say that the LLM has some ability to detect hallucinations. This is the first benchmark of this sort. \n\nSecond, although we can hire human writers to fabricate hallucinations, it is labor-intensive and may contain biases from humans. Existing powerful LLMs such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 have shown superhuman performance in many tasks and they have been widely used to generate synthesized instructions [1][2]. Therefore, instructing LLMs may generate better and plausible hallucinations, and this method has been adopted in previous literatures [3][4]. During the construction process of our benchmark, we instructed an LLM to generate hallucinated answers that are close to real hallucination patterns LLMs usually generate, by carefully designing the instructions from two aspects, i.e., hallucination patterns and demonstrations (described in Line 152 Instruction Design).  The hallucination patterns are task-specific and reflect the commonly present schema where LLMs produce hallucinations. These patterns can guarantee that the types of synthesized hallucinations are the same as in real task LLMs will produce. And the in-context hallucination demonstrations can further help LLMs understand these hallucination patterns and synthesize more accurate hallucinated examples according to the provided demonstrations. \n\n**Question 2: The instructions used for chain of thought reasoning are not mentioned. For example, what constitutes the exemplars and how are the reasoning steps designed? What kind of reasoning do models provide for new examples? Without this information, it is not convincing that CoT performs worse.**\n\n**Response to Reject 2:** Thanks for your comments. The instructions and exemplars (or demonstrations) used in CoT are similar to those in the main detection experiments (shown in Table 13, 14, and 15). The only difference is that we add the reasoning step before the final judgement, which is a common form of CoT and has been used and shown effective in many previous studies [5][6][7], so we did not provide full details about this part for simplicity. We will add these details in later versions. We show an illustrative example below.\n\nFor example, in Table 13, the original instruction for the first example is:\n\n**#Question#:** What U.S Highway gives access to Zilpo Road, and is also known as Midland Trail? \n\n**#Answer#:** U.S Highway 60 \n\n**#Your Judgement#:** No\n\nIn CoT, the instruction with reasoning steps slightly changes to:\n\n**#Question#:** What U.S Highway gives access to Zilpo Road, and is also known as Midland Trail? \n\n**#Answer#:** U.S Highway 60 \n\n**#Your Judgement#:** **According to the question, the answer must provide the name of the U.S Highway that gives access to Zilpo Road and is also known as Midland Trail. The correct answer is U.S Highway 60.** So the judgement is No.\n\nWe can see that the only difference is that we add the explanatory reasoning before making the final judgement, which is a common form of CoT and has been used in many previous studies. Although CoT performs worse in QA and dialogue, it achieves better results in the summarization and general tasks. In QA and dialogue which involve much knowledge, adding chain-of-thought before output might interfere with the final judgement. The different characteristics of these tasks make the performance of CoT varying. We have explained the reasons in Line 401-412.\n\n**References:**\n\n[1] Wang, Yizhong, Yeganeh Kordi, Swaroop Mishra, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith, Daniel Khashabi, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi. \"Self-instruct: Aligning language model with self generated instructions.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10560 (2022).\n\n[2] Xu, Can, Qingfeng Sun, Kai Zheng, Xiubo Geng, Pu Zhao, Jiazhan Feng, Chongyang Tao, and Daxin Jiang. \"Wizardlm: Empowering large language models to follow complex instructions.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12244 (2023).\n\n[3] Chen, Anthony, Panupong Pasupat, Sameer Singh, Hongrae Lee, and Kelvin Guu. \"PURR: Efficiently Editing Language Model Hallucinations by Denoising Language Model Corruptions.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14908 (2023).\n\n[4] Mündler, Niels, Jingxuan He, Slobodan Jenko, and Martin Vechev. \"Self-contradictory Hallucinations of Large Language Models: Evaluation, Detection and Mitigation.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15852 (2023).\n\n[5] Wei, Jason, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Fei Xia, Ed Chi, Quoc V. Le, and Denny Zhou. \"Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models.\" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (2022): 24824-24837.\n\n[6] Wang, Xuezhi, Jason Wei, Dale Schuurmans, Quoc Le, Ed Chi, Sharan Narang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, and Denny Zhou. \"Self-consistency improves chain of thought reasoning in language models.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11171 (2022).\n\n[7] Kojima, Takeshi, Shixiang Shane Gu, Machel Reid, Yutaka Matsuo, and Yusuke Iwasawa. \"Large language models are zero-shot reasoners.\" Advances in neural information processing systems 35 (2022): 22199-22213.", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "- The benchmark addresses a very important issue of hallucination in large language models, and having benchmarks to enable new detection methods is also important\n- The evaluation also indicates that current models are extremely weak at detecting hallucinations and calls for future work to improve hallucination detection.", "reasons_to_reject": "- The datasets do not appear to fully align with the task at hand, specifically regarding the detection of hallucinations. Models have been intentionally instructed to generate false responses, whereas the primary objective is to identify instances in which models produce hallucinations when prompted to provide the correct answer. Hence, the proposed benchmark may not provide valuable information in evaluating actual detection models.\n- The instructions used for chain of thought reasoning are not mentioned. For example, what constitutes the exemplars and how are the reasoning steps designed? What kind of reasoning do models provide for new examples? Without this information, it is not convincing that CoT performs worse.", "questions_to_authors": "- Could the authors clarify why the benchmark is reasonable for hallucination detection, given that models were explicitly asked to generate hallucinated answers?\n- As mentioned in the weakness, could the authors clarify the chain-of-thought setting?", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "The authors propose HaluEval, a benchmark for evaluating hallucinations generated by large language models in response to open-world queries. The dataset consists of hallucinations in response to queries from various sources (HotpotQA, OpenDialKG, and CNN-DailyMail), and recent instruction-tuned models are tested for their ability to detect generated hallucinations. The findings suggest that current models have weak detection capabilities, but knowledge retrieval augmentation can improve performance.", "excitement": 3, "reproducibility": 3, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {}, "extra_text": {}}, {"review_id": "EHtJVfG4bm", "reviewer": "Reviewer_XvWz", "summary": "", "questions": "", "limitations": "", "rating": 4, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 5, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "**Question 1: It might be better if other LLMs can be tested on the benchmark. Or maybe a leaderboard can be provided to collect state-of-the-art performance on the dataset.**\n\n**Response to contributions:** We appreciate your valuable suggestions. We tested the recently emerged models after submission, including a close-source LLM (Claude-2) and three open-source LLMs (LLaMA 2 Chat 7B, ChatGLM 7B, and Falcon 7B). Their results are shown as below. Building a leaderboard is a good way to compare existing powerful LLMs and collect state-of-the-art performance in our dataset. We will release this leaderboard in our github page after the review period. Thanks for your precious comments again. \n\n|      | QA | Dialogue | Summarization | General|\n| ----------- | ----------- |----------- |----------- |----------- |\n| **Claude-2**|    69.78%  |   64.73%    |57.75%|75.00%|\n| **LLaMA-2 Chat (7B)** | 49.60%   | 43.99%        |49.55% |20.46%|\n| **ChatGLM (7B)** | 47.93%   | 44.41%        |48.57%|30.92%|\n| **Falcon (7B)** | 39.66%   | 29.08%        |42.71%|18.98%|", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "(1) large scale hallucination detection dataset, which is expected by the community\n\n(2) the dataset covers different tasks (QA, Dialogue and Summarization), with detailed info about the hallucination\n", "reasons_to_reject": " ", "questions_to_authors": "", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "It is smooth to read this paper, which is about building benchmark dataset (HaluEval) for hallucination detection. \n\nThe data is collected in sample-then-filtering strategy. The sample part is done with chatgpt (Azure ChatGPT API is used). The filtering is relied on manual labeling. This leads to a big benchmark, including 35000 samples (regular+hallucinated), 5000 general user queries with responses and 30000 task specific examples in 3 major tasks (QA, Dialogue and Summarization). \n\nBased on the collected benchmark, major LLMs are examined on the benchmark including ChatGPT and GPT-3. Analysis is also provided to give more insights on the experiment and analysis results. \n\nIt might be better if other LLMs can be tested on the benchmark. Or maybe a leaderboard can be provided to collect state-of-the-art performance on the dataset. \n", "excitement": 4, "reproducibility": 4, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {}, "extra_text": {}}, {"review_id": "veOE2d5Wjz", "reviewer": "Reviewer_ANev", "summary": "", "questions": "", "limitations": "", "rating": 3, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 4, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "**Question 1: The paper investigates the LLM hallucination issue, as shown in Table 1, the LLM is asked to generate a response given a normal user query. However, in the benchmark construction, the instruction includes some frames that force the LLM to generate hallucinated content such as \"You should try your best to make the answer become hallucinated.\" and given some constrains such as \"#Hallucinated Answer# can only have about 5 more words than #Right Answer#.\" In this way, the distribution of types and extent of hallucination may not be exact same as the hallucination that the LLM will generate when given a normal query as shown in Table 1.**\n\n**Response to Reject 1:** Thanks for your comments. Many previous studies have found that the hallucinations in LLM responses are often mixed with correct content, but exhibit minor difference from the correct content [1][2], which are also discovered in our human annotated ChatGPT responses. This finding inspires us to intentionally prompt LLMs to generate hallucinations by mimicking the given right answer.  In our instruction, the force frames \"You should try your best to make the answer become hallucinated.\" and the length constraint \"#Hallucinated Answer# can only have about 5 more words than #Right Answer#.\" are necessary to make our synthesized examples closer to the distribution of right answers, which is designed based on our preliminary experiments. Without the force frame, we discovered that ChatGPT may repeat the original answer and does not generate hallucination examples. And without the length constraint, the synthesized hallucinations from ChatGPT will be much longer than the original answer. These two frames are added in order to make our synthesized data close to the distribution of right answers and cannot be trivially distinguished from the right answers.\n\nMore importantly, we carefully design the instruction details, i.e., hallucination patterns and demonstrations (described in Line 152 Instruction Design), for guiding LLMs how to revise the right answer to make it hallucinated and closer to the distribution of real hallucinations LLMs usually generate. First, the hallucination patterns are task-specific and reflect the commonly present way where LLMs produce hallucinations [2][3][4]. These patterns can guarantee that the types of synthesized hallucinations are the same as in real task LLMs will produce. Second, the in-context hallucination demonstrations can further help LLMs understand these hallucination patterns and synthesize more accurate hallucinated examples according to the provided demonstrations.\n\n**References:**\n\n[1] Dziri, Nouha, Sivan Milton, Mo Yu, Osmar Zaiane, and Siva Reddy. \"On the origin of hallucinations in conversational models: Is it the datasets or the models?.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07931 (2022).\n\n[2] Das, Souvik, Sougata Saha, and Rohini K. Srihari. \"Diving Deep into Modes of Fact Hallucinations in Dialogue Systems.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04449 (2023).\n\n[3] Zheng, Shen, Jie Huang, and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. \"Why does chatgpt fall short in providing truthful answers.\" ArXiv preprint, abs/2304.10513 (2023).\n\n[4] Cao, Meng, Yue Dong, and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung. \"Hallucinated but factual! inspecting the factuality of hallucinations in abstractive summarization.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09784 (2021).", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "1. The paper is well written, the methods are easy to understand and the contribution is clear.\n2. The constructed dataset is large scale with multiple tasks, which is usefull for future work.\n3. The fragments of the hallucinated content in the LLM responses is helpful for future work.", "reasons_to_reject": "1. The paper investage the LLM hallucination issue, as shown in Table 1, the LLM is asked to generate a response given a normal user query. However, in the benchmark construction, the instruction includes some frames that force the LLM to generate hallucinated content such as \"You should try your best to make the answer become hallucinated.\" and given some constrains such as \"#Hallucinated Answer# can only have about 5 more words than #Right Answer#.\" In this way, the distribution of types and extent of hallucination may not be exact same as the hallucination that the LLM will generate when given a normal query as shown in Table 1.", "questions_to_authors": "", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "The paper proposed a Hallucination Evaluation for LLMs (HaluEval) benchmark, a large collection of generated and human-annotated hallucinated samples for evaluating the performance of LLMs in recognizing hallucination. Based on the HaluEval benchmark, the paper tested LLM-based Hallucination Recognition methods and tried three improvement strategies (Knowledge Retrieval, CoT Reasoning and Sample Contrast), results shows that Knowledge Retrieval and CoT Reasoning can improve the ability of LLMs to recognize hallucination.\n\nMain Contribution:  \n1. The paper constructed a hallucination dataset with a two-step pipeline and analyze what types of content and to which extent LLMs tend to hallucinate.\n2. The paper tested LLMs as hallucination detector on the constructed dataset and further investages three improvement strategies.", "excitement": 3, "reproducibility": 4, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {}, "extra_text": {}}]

Author rebuttal:

Meta-review: Hallucinations are a major concern in text generated by current generative models. The paper proposes a benchmark for evaluating hallucinations. The dataset contains hallucinations in response to queries from HotpotQA, OpenDialKG, CNN-Dailyail). The core claim of the paper is that current instruction-tuned models do not reliably detect hallucinations, but that knowledge retrieval and CoT reasoning can help to improve the results. 
The dataset is large, including 35 000 samples. The paper contains an analysis of what kinds of hallucinations occur. 

The authors engaged in in-depth discussion with reviewers 1 and 3, during which many of their concerns could be addressed; the discussion resulted in several new analyses and improvements to presentation which can be incorporated in the final paper.
Decision: Accept-Main