Dynamic Attention-Guided Context Decoding for Mitigating Context Faithfulness Hallucinations in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit Context Faithfulness Hallucinations, where outputs deviate from retrieved information due to incomplete context integration.Our analysis reveals a strong correlation between token-level uncertainty and hallucinations.We hypothesize that attention mechanisms inherently encode context utilization signals, supported by probing analysis.Based on these insights, we propose Dynamic Attention-Guided Context Decoding (DAGCD), a lightweight framework that leverages attention distributions and uncertainty signals in a single-pass decoding.Experiments on open-book QA datasets demonstrate DAGCD's effectiveness, yielding significant improvements in faithfulness and robustness while preserving computational efficiency.

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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.269
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Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit Context Faithfulness Hallucinations, where outputs deviate from retrieved information due to incomplete context integration.Our analysis reveals a strong correlation between token-level uncertainty and hallucinations.We hypothesize that attention mechanisms inherently encode context utilization signals, supported by probing analysis.Based on these insights, we propose Dynamic Attention-Guided Context Decoding (DAGCD), a lightweight framework that leverages attention distributions and uncertainty signals in a single-pass decoding.Experiments on open-book QA datasets demonstrate DAGCD's effectiveness, yielding significant improvements in faithfulness and robustness while preserving computational efficiency.

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