DialFork: Going Beyond Factuality to Evaluate Procedural Hallucination in Conversational Agents
Summary
DialFork introduces an annotation-free benchmark for detecting procedural hallucination in conversational agents, using conversation 'forks' with injected instructions to generate free labels across 36,278 dialogues spanning 24 tasks and 12 domains.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2610.21561 Ask an LLM agent to check the weather. It’s polite, fluent and never says anything false... and twenty turns later you still don’t have your forecast. 🌦️
That’sprocedural hallucination: the agent stops following the procedure it was given. Every turn looks fine on its own, so fact-checkers and per-turn quality metrics miss it.
DialForkis a benchmark for catching it, with no annotation needed. We take a conversation where the agent does everything right, replay it with the same seed, and slip the agent a new instruction at some point, so the conversation “forks” 🔱. The fork position gives us labels for free: how far each fork strays and the turn where it starts straying.
- 36,278 English dialogues · 24 tasks · 12 domains · 4 hallucination types
- 3 tasks: set-to-set distance (monitoring), dialog-to-dialog distance (procedural retrieval) and turn prediction (real-time guardrails)
🤗 Dataset:https://huggingface.co/datasets/DialFork/dialfork 💻 Code & leaderboard:https://github.com/idiap/dialfork
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