Do LLMs hallucinate randomly? Not quite.
Our #ACL2025 (Main) paper shows that hallucinations under irrelevant contexts follow a systematic failure mode — revealing how LLMs generalize using abstract classes + context cues, albeit unreliably.
📎 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22630 1/n
Ziling Cheng
Thanks to my collaborators and mentors @katelobacheva.bsky.social, Irina Rish, Supriyo Chakraborty, and Nima Chitsazan.
Also Ashwinee Panda for coining "zero-sum learning", which is honestly a pretty great name.
