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Hallucination, Mechanically
Why Models Make Things Up and What Actually Reduces It
A book by Alpesh Nakrani
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- Pages
- 154
- Chapters
- 16
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- PDF · 27.3 MB
01/Overview
What's in the book
Hallucination is not a bug to patch but a property to manage. The mechanisms behind it and the interventions that measurably help.
02/Inside the PDF
Table of contents
PDF page- FMFront Matter: Hallucination, Mechanically—
- INTIntroduction: The Holding That Never Was15
- 01The Confident Wrong Answer21
- 02A Working Taxonomy of Hallucination29
- 03The CLAIM Framework37
- 04Fluency Is Not Evidence45
- 05What Models Know About What They Know51
- 06When Retrieval Fails Before Generation Begins58
- 07A Citation Is Not Proof65
- 08The Compression Press72
- 09Hallucinated Actions79
- 10Claim Extraction and Source-Span Verification86
- 11Self-Consistency and the Limits of the Judge93
- 12Interventions and Their Limits100
- 13Teaching a System to Say "I Don't Know"113
- 14Measuring Unsupported Claims120
- 15Operating Against Hallucination in Production127
- 16Playbooks by Domain134
- AAppendix A: Back Matter142
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