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MIRAGE-Bench: LLM Agent is Hallucinating and Where to Find Them

arXiv 2507.21017 ↗First posted 28 Jul 2025cs.AIcited by 16

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Medical and scientific domain agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Hallucinations pose critical risks for large language model (LLM)-based agents, often manifesting as hallucinative actions resulting from fabricated or misinterpreted information within the cognitive context. While recent studies have exposed such failures, existing evaluations remain fragmented and lack a principled testbed. In this paper, we present MIRAGE-Bench--Measuring Illusions in Risky AGEnt settings--the first unified benchmark for eliciting and evaluating hallucinations in interactive LLM-agent scenarios. We begin by introducing a three-part taxonomy to address agentic hallucinations: actions that are unfaithful to (i) task instructions, (ii) execution history, or (iii) environment observations. To analyze, we first elicit such failures by performing a systematic audit of existing agent benchmarks, then synthesize test cases using a snapshot strategy that isolates decision points in deterministic and reproducible manners. To evaluate hallucination behaviors, we adopt a fine-grained-level LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm with tailored risk-aware prompts, enabling scalable, high-fidelity assessment of agent actions without enumerating full action spaces. MIRAGE-Bench provides actionable insights on failure modes of LLM agents and lays the groundwork for principled progress in mitigating hallucinations in interactive environments.

Key facts. Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical and scientific domain agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 39 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Jul 2025.

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  2. 2025A Unified Definition of Hallucination: It's The World Model, Stupid!cited by 6
  3. 2026Recovering Policy-Induced Errors: Benchmarking and Trajectory Synthesis for Robust GUI Agentscited by 3
  4. 2026Program Analysis Guided LLM Agent for Proof-of-Concept Generationcited by 2
  5. 2026DiagEval: Trajectory-Conditioned Diagnosis for Reliable Software Evaluation with GUI Agentscited by 2
  6. 2026HalluWorld: A Controlled Benchmark for Hallucination via Reference World Modelscited by 2
  7. 2026K-Bench: measuring model performance on real scientific agent requestscited by 2
  8. 2025M4-RAG: A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAGcited by 1
  9. 2026CODE-GEN: A Human-in-the-Loop RAG-Based Agentic AI System for Multiple-Choice Question Generationcited by 1
  10. 2026Beyond Final Answers: Auditing Trajectory-Level Hallucinations in Multi-Agent Industrial Workflowscited by 1
  11. 2026Protective Capacity Hallucination: When Large Language Models Claim Nonexistent Capabilitiescited by 0
  12. 2026Tracing the Cascade: A Topology-Aware Evaluation Framework for Scientific Agent Hallucinationscited by 0
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