Survey on factuality in large language models: Knowledge, retrieval and domain-specificity

C Wang, X Liu, Y Yue, X Tang, T Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This survey addresses the crucial issue of factuality in Large Language Models (LLMs). As
LLMs find applications across diverse domains, the reliability and accuracy of their outputs …

Automatically correcting large language models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies

L Pan, M Saxon, W Xu, D Nathani, X Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide
array of NLP tasks. However, their efficacy is undermined by undesired and inconsistent …

A survey on hallucination in large language models: Principles, taxonomy, challenges, and open questions

L Huang, W Yu, W Ma, W Zhong, Z Feng… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in
natural language processing (NLP), fueling a paradigm shift in information acquisition …

Benchmarking large language models in retrieval-augmented generation

J Chen, H Lin, X Han, L Sun - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising approach for mitigating the
hallucination of large language models (LLMs). However, existing research lacks rigorous …

Augmented language models: a survey

G Mialon, R Dessì, M Lomeli, C Nalmpantis… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This survey reviews works in which language models (LMs) are augmented with reasoning
skills and the ability to use tools. The former is defined as decomposing a potentially …

Towards reasoning in large language models: A survey

J Huang, KCC Chang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.10403, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence that plays a crucial role in
activities such as problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking. In recent years …

Large language models for information retrieval: A survey

Y Zhu, H Yuan, S Wang, J Liu, W Liu, C Deng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as
search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve …

Check your facts and try again: Improving large language models with external knowledge and automated feedback

B Peng, M Galley, P He, H Cheng, Y **e, Y Hu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are able to generate human-like, fluent
responses for many downstream tasks, eg, task-oriented dialog and question answering …

Enabling large language models to generate text with citations

T Gao, H Yen, J Yu, D Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.14627, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a widely-used tool for information
seeking, but their generated outputs are prone to hallucination. In this work, our aim is to …

Reasoning with language model prompting: A survey

S Qiao, Y Ou, N Zhang, X Chen, Y Yao, S Deng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reasoning, as an essential ability for complex problem-solving, can provide back-end
support for various real-world applications, such as medical diagnosis, negotiation, etc. This …