Is Imagination Derived from Hallucination? A Cross-Taxonomy Evaluation of Imagination and Hallucination in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.22152 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

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Terminology

• Hallucination — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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