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20182026
most citedSiren's Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models

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106 papers

cs.CL2026

Copying Is Not Grounding: Training Faithful Long-Form RAG with Authored-Sentence Credit

Hoang Pham, Duc Anh Vu, Duy Tung Doan +2

In search engines and assistants, long-form RAG answers can mislead readers with claims their sources do not support. Faithfulness rewards, the share of supported sentences, train…

cs.CL2026

Reliable Memory from Unstable Growth: Curating Self-Written Agent Playbooks with Randomized Experiments

Hoang Pham, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Dong Le +2

Persistent textual memory lets language-model agents reuse lessons from past tasks to improve on future multi-step tasks without retraining. Systems such as ACE and Dynamic Cheatsh…

cs.LG2026

SCAD: Structured Credit Assignment and Distillation for Long-Horizon Agents

Shangyang Wu, Shuai Zhao, Ziyue Zhu +3

Training long-horizon agents to solve complex tasks requires effective supervision over extended interaction sequences. However, sparse terminal rewards obscure intermediate contri…

cs.CR2026

Practical Secrets Extraction against Black-box LLMs

Shiqian Zhao, Siwei Jiang, Xinfeng Li +5

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly power autonomous coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code, yet their training corpora may contain confidential credentials exposed in p…

cs.CE2026

TIEM: Temporal Integration of Hypergraph Evidence and Skill Memory for Event-Driven Financial Forecasting

Wenjin Liu, Shen Pang, Chenxi Wang +6

Event-driven catalyst-outcome forecasting increasingly uses retrieval- and memory-augmented large language model agents for prediction. However, training-data contamination and tem…

cs.LG2026

Measuring the Checker: Mutation Analysis for GPU-Kernel Benchmark Oracles

Mingzhe Du, Anh Tuan Luu, Dong Huang +1

Benchmarks for LLM-generated GPU kernels decide correctness with a few random inputs and a loose floating-point tolerance, and their verdicts now feed leaderboards and reinforcemen…

cs.DB2026

Diachronic Hypergraphs for Orchestrated Multi-Agent Multimodal Memory Curation

Yichao Feng, Ran Zhang, Haoran Luo +3

Multi-agent systems solve tasks through collaboration, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and orchestration, but each agent operates within a knowledge boundary defined by its observa…

cs.LG2026

CataOPD: Catalytic On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Model Reasoning

Wenjin Liu, Chenxi Wang, Jiapu Wang +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) and on-policy distillation (OPD) are two representative paradigms for improving large language model reasoning. However, when no correct trajectory is s…

cs.CV2026

AdaPilot: Towards Scene-Adaptive Policy Learning for Cross-Generator Text-to-Image Quality Optimization

Wenjin Liu, Fayuan Ke, Yue Lu +3

Existing methods for improving text-to-image generation quality have progressed from generator fine-tuning and prompt optimization to reinforcement learning with multi-turn visual…

cs.CE2026

MMDynOpt-Agent: Dynamic Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Wenjin Liu, Haoran Luo, Fayuan Ke +5

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in visual understanding and complex reasoning tasks. However, existing methods often struggle…

cs.CV2026

Predict, Then Retrieve: Cross-Instance Future-State Retrieval from Video Prefixes

Quynh Vo, Thong Nguyen, Vinh-Hien Do +2

We introduce Predictive State Retrieval (PSR), a task in which a model observes a short video prefix and a temporal question about an object's future state, then retrieves instance…

cs.LG2026

PowerAtlas: Feasibility-Aware Language Models for Electricity-Computing Co-Scheduling

Kaiwen Jiang, Siya Xu, Ziyue Zhu +4

Electricity-computing co-scheduling (ECCS) decides where and when computing tasks run together with how generators are dispatched, because task placement changes nodal demand while…

cs.CL2026

From Signals to Transfer: A Factorised Study of Probe-Based Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen +3

Probe-based uncertainty estimation (UE) has emerged as a prominent approach to detect hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by learning uncertainty from internal model sig…

cs.CL2026

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Jundong Xu, Qingchuan Li, Jiaying Wu +11

Large language model (LLM) agents have achieved strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, yet most evaluations assume static environments. In contrast, real-world deploymen…

cs.LG2026

Activation Steering Induces Emergent Misalignment: Steering Vector Construction and Comprehensive Evaluation

Qi Cao, Jian Lou, Meiting Liu +4

Activation steering (AS) has emerged as a popular inference-time technique for modulating the behavior of large language models (LLMs). AS modulates model behavior in a flexible an…

cs.CL2026

GRACE: Step-Level Benchmark for Faithful Reasoning over Context

Hoang Pham, Dong Le, Anh Tuan Luu

Many reasoning tasks require models to reason over input context, from document-grounded question answering to rule-based deduction. Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting produces trace…

cs.CL2026

Don't Read Everything: A Curvature-Conditioned Query for Linear Attention

Dong Le, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen +1

Linear attention reduces the quadratic cost of softmax attention by maintaining a recurrent fast-weight state, but it consistently lags on in-context retrieval and long-context tas…

cs.LG2026

WINDQuant: Weight-Informed Neural Decision-Making for Global Mixed-Precision LLM Quantization

Phong Nam Huu Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Cong-Duy T Nguyen +3

Quantization is an effective approach to reduce the memory footprint and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet maintaining performance in the ultra-low-bit regime rem…

cs.CL2026

When In-Distribution Gains Fail: Evaluating Weak-to-Strong Reward Models under Preference Shift

Khoi Le, Tri Cao, Phong Nguyen +5

Weak-to-strong (W2S) generalization is a promising framework for scalable oversight, yet existing evaluations often test students under matched train-test distributions. Therefore,…

cs.LG2026

Understanding and Preventing Entropy Collapse in RLVR with On-Policy Entropy Flow Optimization

Huimin Xu, Shuai Zhao, Xiaobao Wu +1

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, widely used RLVR algor…

cs.CV2026

Tracking the Truth: Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring for Video Large Language Models

Tri Cao, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen +7

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced video understanding, they remain highly prone to hallucinations in dynamic scenes. We argue this stems from a failure i…

cs.CL2026

Learning Uncertainty from Sequential Internal Dispersion in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen +1

Uncertainty estimation is a promising approach to detect hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). Recent approaches commonly depend on model internal states to estimate unce…

cs.AI2026

OpenMobile: Building Open Mobile Agents with Task and Trajectory Synthesis

Kanzhi Cheng, Zehao Li, Zheng Ma +11

Mobile agents powered by vision-language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automating mobile tasks, with recent leading models achieving a marked performance leap…

cs.AI2026

Towards Reliable Truth-Aligned Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models

Ponhvoan Srey, Quang Minh Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu +1

Uncertainty estimation (UE) aims to quantify uncertainty in large language model (LLM) outputs to flag potential hallucinations and support reliable deployment. However, UE metrics…