Explainable Hallucination through Natural Language Inference Mapping

Large language models (LLMs) often generate hallucinated content, making it crucial to identify and quantify inconsistencies in their outputs.We introduce HaluMap, a post-hoc framework that detects hallucinations by mapping entailment and contradiction relations between source inputs and generated outputs using a natural language inference (NLI) model.To improve reliability, we propose a calibration step leveraging intra-text relations to refine predictions.HaluMap outperforms stateof-the-art NLI-based methods by five percentage points compared to other training-free approaches, while providing clear, interpretable explanations.As a training-free and modelagnostic approach, HaluMap offers a practical solution for verifying LLM outputs across diverse NLP tasks.The resources of this paper are available at https://github.com/ caisa-lab/acl25-halumap.