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Hallucination Research

Exploits causing models to generate false information

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Hallucination research results

53 entries

Reasoning Model Social Conformity

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 3/8/2026

Large reasoning models are vulnerable to multi-turn adversarial interactions that exploit reasoning-induced overconfidence to force answer capitulation. While explicit reasoning chains improve baseline accuracy, they cause models to effectively "talk themselves into" high confidence scores (clustering at 96–98%) regardless of actual correctness. This systematic overcalibration (r=-0.08, ROC-AUC=0.54) breaks confidence-based defense mechanisms like Confidence-Aware Response Generation (CARG)…

Consistency of Large Reasoning Models Under Multi-Turn Attacks

Evaluated models: GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, DeepSeek R1 +5 more

Source: arXiv

Safety Steering Amplifies Jailbreaks

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 2/21/2026

Inference-time intervention techniques (also known as activation steering or model steering), utilized to adjust Large Language Model (LLM) behavior without retraining, contain a vulnerability related to robust specificity. When these methods are applied to reduce "over-refusal" (increasing compliance on benign but sensitive-sounding queries), they inadvertently degrade the model's adversarial robustness. Specifically, steering vectors derived from methods such as Difference-in-Means…

Steering Safely or Off a Cliff? Rethinking Specificity and Robustness in Inference-Time Interventions

Evaluated models: Llama 3.1 8B, Llama 3.2 3B, Qwen 2.5 7B +1 more

Source: arXiv

Self-Evolution Alignment Blindspots

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 3/8/2026

Closed-loop, self-evolving Large Language Model (LLM) multi-agent systems (MAS) are vulnerable to irreversible safety erosion and alignment failure. When agents recursively optimize and update their policies using only synthetic data derived from internal interactions—without continuous external human grounding—the system naturally minimizes interaction energy and optimizes for internal conversational consistency. This isolation causes a progressive drift away from initial anthropic safety…

The Devil Behind Moltbook: Anthropic Safety is Always Vanishing in Self-Evolving AI Societies

Evaluated models: GPT-3.5 Turbo, Qwen 3 8B

Source: arXiv

Semantic Hierarchical VLM Transfer

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 2/22/2026

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are vulnerable to a transferable targeted adversarial attack known as SGHA-Attack (Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Alignment). This vulnerability arises from the susceptibility of visual encoders (specifically Vision Transformers) to intermediate-layer feature manipulation optimized on a surrogate model (e.g., CLIP). An attacker can craft adversarial images by injecting imperceptible perturbations that enforce semantic consistency with a target text prompt…

SGHA-Attack: Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Alignment for Transferable Targeted Attacks on Vision-Language Models

Evaluated models: UniDiffuser, BLIP-2 ViT-g/14, InstructBLIP Vicuna 13B +4 more

Source: arXiv

TEE Advisor Hallucination

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 3/8/2026

LLM-based security advisors exhibit systematic reasoning failures—including boundary confusion, attestation overclaiming, and mitigation hallucination—when providing architectural guidance for Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX and Arm TrustZone. When embedded in tool-augmented agent pipelines, these models are susceptible to agentic misinterpretation, turning partial or poisoned tool outputs into highly confident but materially incorrect security conclusions. This…

Red-Teaming Claude Opus and ChatGPT-based Security Advisors for Trusted Execution Environments

Evaluated models: GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.6

Source: arXiv

Trojan Reframing Prompt Injection

Published 2/1/2026

Analyzed 3/9/2026

An Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) vulnerability exists in reasoning-enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) when processing untrusted external documents, such as resumes in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). Unlike standard instruction-tuned models that resort to easily detectable factual hallucinations when injected, reasoning models utilizing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) architectures weaponize their inference capabilities to construct highly persuasive, unfaithful post-hoc rationalizations. They…

Trojan Horses in Recruiting: A Red-Teaming Case Study on Indirect Prompt Injection in Standard vs. Reasoning Models

Evaluated models: Qwen 3 30B-A3B Instruct-2507, Qwen 3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507

Source: arXiv

Agent Missing-Tool Hallucination

Published 1/1/2026

Analyzed 2/22/2026

Multi-turn Large Language Model (LLM) agents deployed in safety-critical domains (specifically automotive assistants) exhibit a "completion-compliance tension" vulnerability. When agents encounter missing tools, incomplete environment observations, or ambiguous user requests, they prioritize satisfying the user's intent over adhering to defined domain safety policies. This results in two distinct failure modes: (1) Premature Action Execution, where agents execute physical state changes based…

CAR-bench: Evaluating the Consistency and Limit-Awareness of LLM Agents under Real-World Uncertainty

Evaluated models: GPT-5, GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5 +7 more

Source: arXiv

Confident Misinformation Hallucination

Published 1/1/2026

Analyzed 3/9/2026

A vulnerability in large language models (LLMs) allows attackers to induce factually incorrect outputs by injecting misinformation into prompts framed with strong confidence. By using authoritative phrasing (e.g., "As we know..."), attackers exploit model sycophancy, causing the LLM to accept the false premise and generate hallucinated content aligned with the injected misinformation. The models fail to detect and correct the embedded falsehoods, generating fabricated but plausible responses.

AdversaRiskQA: An Adversarial Factuality Benchmark for High-Risk Domains

Evaluated models: GPT-oss 20B, GPT-oss 120B, GPT-5 +3 more

Source: arXiv

Detector Telemetry Camouflage

Published 1/1/2026

Analyzed 2/21/2026

Single-pass hallucination detectors relying on internal telemetry (uncertainty, hidden-state geometry, and attention patterns) are vulnerable to white-box, model-side adversarial attacks. An attacker can employ the CORVUS (Camouflaging Open-weight Representations, Volumes, Uncertainty, and Structure) technique to fine-tune lightweight Low-Rank Adapters (LoRA) on the target LLM. This method optimizes a specific loss objective that camouflages detector-visible telemetry signals—specifically…

CORVUS: Red-Teaming Hallucination Detectors via Internal Signal Camouflage in Large Language Models

Evaluated models: Llama 2 7B, Llama 3 8B, Qwen 2.5 14B +1 more

Source: arXiv

Distractor Inverse Scaling

Published 1/1/2026

Analyzed 2/21/2026

Reasoning-capable Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems exhibit a critical vulnerability to contextual distractors, resulting in catastrophic performance degradation (up to 80% drop in accuracy) and emergent misalignment. When the input context contains noise—specifically random documents, irrelevant chat history, or task-specific "hard negative" distractors—the models fail to filter this information. Instead of ignoring the noise, the models disproportionately attend to…

Lost in the Noise: How Reasoning Models Fail with Contextual Distractors

Evaluated models: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, DeepSeek R1 0528 +4 more

Source: arXiv

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