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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational5 November 2026

Hallucination Is Linearly Decodable from Mid-Layer Hidden States in Quantized LLMs

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arXiv:2606.02628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether open-source LLMs encode a linearly separable truthfulness signal in their hidden states, and at which network depth this signal is strongest. Across three $7$B--$8$B instruction-tuned models (Llama-3.1-8B, Mistral-7B, Qwen2.5-7B) loaded in $4$-bit NF4 quantization, we extract per-layer hidden states on four hallucination benchmarks (TruthfulQA, HaluEval-QA, FEVER, and a controlled synthetic set) and compare four detection approaches: linear and MLP probes, INSIDE EigenScore, self-consistency, and attention entropy. A line
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