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What is hallucination in LLMs? How reduce it in apps?

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Hallucination mitigation

For What is hallucination in LLMs? How reduce it in apps, interviewers listen for a crisp definition, how the pieces interact in a real system, and one trade-off or failure mode you have seen or would guard against.

  • RAG with source citations
  • Lower temperature for factual tasks
  • Human review for high-risk domains
  • Tool use / function calling for live data
Never let LLM invent policy numbers—fetch from DB.