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Look Before You Leap: Factual Decoding with Internal Attribution Signals

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Hallucination remains a critical challenge in large language models (LLMs), where early factual errors compound through autoregressive generation in a snowballing effect that neither post-hoc correction nor weight-level intervention can effectively preempt. We propose DescaPE (DEcoding Signal Control Against Path Error-snowballing), a decoding framework that leverages internal model signals to suppress hallucination-prone trajectories at inference time. Through sliding-window MLP ablation, we identify a factual-salient layer span within LLMs whose derived signal is selectively elevated for fac

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