Theoretical Limits on Hallucination
Formal learning theory increasingly frames hallucination as a bounded property rather than an eliminable defect, shifting reliability work toward verification layers around models.
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A new theory paper extends the 'generation in the limit' framework to ask whether language models can keep learning while producing invalid strings forever, framing hallucination as a bounded formal property.
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Supporting · June 30, 2026
A Theory Paper Asks Whether Language Models Can Learn While Hallucinating Forever
A new theory paper extends the 'generation in the limit' framework to ask whether language models can keep learning while producing invalid strings forever, framing hallucination as a bounded formal property.
arXiv cs.CL
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