Research2026-07-09 · source-backed
A model's activations reveal whether it'll hallucinate before it writes a token.
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The Bielik study shows internal activation dispersion separates entities a model genuinely knows from ones it'll confabulate, and the signal holds across scale. That's a lightweight, inference-time hallucination lever: check the dispersion before you trust the answer on knowledge-heavy tasks. Cheaper than a second model call, and it runs before generation instead of after.
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