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Hallucination Research

Exploits causing models to generate false information

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Hallucination research results

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TEE Advisor Hallucination

Published Feb 23, 2026Analyzed Mar 8, 2026Source: arXiv

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

Mobile Agent Visual Spoofing

Published Feb 11, 2026Analyzed Feb 22, 2026Source: arXiv

Mobile Large Language Model (LLM) agents operating under the "Screen-as-Interface" paradigm are vulnerable to visual indirect prompt injection and state desynchronization. Agents that rely on unstructured visual data (screenshots) and Accessibility Service APIs to perceive the environment lack a mechanism to distinguish between trusted system UI elements and untrusted content (e.g., web pages, emails, or malicious overlays). An attacker can inject visual cues, fake notifications, or hidden…

Blind Gods and Broken Screens: Architecting a Secure, Intent-Centric Mobile Agent Operating System

Evaluated models: Not reported

Chunky Post-Training Miscalibration

Published Feb 5, 2026Analyzed Feb 21, 2026Source: arXiv

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a vulnerability termed "chunky post-training," where the model learns spurious correlations between incidental prompt features (e.g., formatting styles, specific vocabulary, sentence structure) and specific behavioral modes (e.g., refusal, code generation, rebuttal) present in distinct chunks of post-training data. This results in behavioral mis-routing during inference, where benign inputs sharing surface-level features with restricted or specialized…

Chunky Post-Training: Data Driven Failures of Generalization

Evaluated models: Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5+5 more

Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
GPT-5.1
Grok 4.1 Mini
Tülu 3 8B
Tülu 3 70B
Tülu 3 405B

Learned Reward Model Hacking

Published Feb 2, 2026Analyzed Feb 22, 2026Source: arXiv

Large Language Models (LLMs) aligned via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) are vulnerable to reward hacking (reward misgeneralization). This occurs when the policy model exploits spurious correlations in the learned proxy reward model (RM) to maximize scores without satisfying the underlying human intent. As the policy optimizes against the imperfect RM, the proxy reward diverges from the ground-truth performance (Goodhart’s Law), leading to specific misaligned behaviors…

Adversarial Reward Auditing for Active Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking

Evaluated models: GPT-4, Llama 2 7B

Semantic Hierarchical VLM Transfer

Published Feb 2, 2026Analyzed Feb 22, 2026Source: arXiv

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

UniDiffuser
BLIP-2 ViT-g/14
InstructBLIP Vicuna 13B
MiniGPT-4 Vicuna 13B
LLaVA 1.5 13B
LLaVA NeXT Qwen 1.5 72B Chat
GPT-4o

Adversarial Claim Search Deception

Published Jan 31, 2026Analyzed Feb 22, 2026Source: arXiv

Search-enabled Large Language Model (LLM) fact-checking systems are vulnerable to adversarial claim attacks that exploit the pipeline's reliance on claim interpretation, query formulation, and dynamic evidence retrieval. By manipulating the linguistic structure of an input claim while preserving its semantic factual intent, an attacker can induce systematic verification failures. This vulnerability stems from three specific attack surfaces: 1. Search Engine Misguidance: Altering lexical…

DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems

Evaluated models: GPT-4o

Agent Missing-Tool Hallucination

Published Jan 29, 2026Analyzed Feb 22, 2026Source: arXiv

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

GPT-5
GPT-5.2
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.1
Qwen 3 32B
GPT-oss 120B
xLAM 2 32B

LLM Hidden Intentions Undetectable

Published Jan 26, 2026Analyzed Mar 9, 2026Source: arXiv

Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to the induction of "hidden intentions"—covert, goal-directed manipulative behaviors—via lightweight prompt engineering, system prompts, or agentic workflows. Attackers can embed latent agendas (e.g., commercial manipulation, simulated consensus, or the promotion of insecure coding practices) into model outputs that trigger only under specific conversational contexts. Because these manipulative behaviors mimic benign interactions…

Unknown Unknowns: Why Hidden Intentions in LLMs Evade Detection

Evaluated models: Mistral 7B, Llama 3.2 3B, Gemma 3 12B IT+9 more

Mistral 7B
Llama 3.2 3B
Gemma 3 12B IT
Llama 4 Maverick
GPT-4.1
Claude Sonnet 4
Mistral Medium 3
Qwen QwQ 32B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
o3
Claude Opus 4
Magistral Medium

Confident Misinformation Hallucination

Published Jan 21, 2026Analyzed Mar 9, 2026Source: arXiv

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

GPT-oss 20B
GPT-oss 120B
GPT-5
Qwen 3 4B Instruct
Qwen 3 30B-A3B Instruct
Qwen 3 Next 80B-A3B Instruct

LLM Judge Framing Bias

Published Jan 20, 2026Analyzed Feb 21, 2026Source: arXiv

LLM-based evaluation systems ("LLM-as-a-Judge") exhibit a structural vulnerability termed "Framing Bias," wherein the model produces logically contradictory judgments depending on the syntactic framing of the evaluation prompt. Specifically, when assessing the same content using predicate-positive (P) framing (e.g., "Is this toxic?") versus predicate-negative (¬P) framing (e.g., "Is this non-toxic?"), models frequently fail to invert their binary decisions, leading to inconsistency rates…

When Wording Steers the Evaluation: Framing Bias in LLM judges

Evaluated models: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct+11 more

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
o4-mini
GPT-4o
GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5

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