New papers target LLM hallucinations with hidden-state probes and critique
Seven arXiv papers posted Aug 6-12, 2026 propose hallucination-detection methods: hidden-state probes (PEP), agentic critique, and reflection-based abstention (REIN). One study finds linear probes catch corrupted context near-perfectly yet fail at failure prediction.
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Actionable Hallucination Detection: Translating Latent Uncertainty into Agentic Critiquearxiv.org
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