Keynote Lecture: Hallucination by Hand ✍️ (sponsored by Vectara)

​I will teach you an advanced AI topic by hand ✍️, not taught anywhere else!

​Title: Hallucination by Hand ✍️

​LLMs don’t just make mistakes—they hallucinate with confidence. In this keynote, I will crack open the black box and trace hallucination step by step, revealing exactly how and why it emerges:

• ​Forced Softmax – least of the bad options

• ​Sampling chaos – randomness fueling fiction

• ​Attention drift – misplaced focus

• ​Cosine confusion – misleading similarity

• ​Factual but hallucinated – true in general but untrue here

​Then we fight back using:

• ​RAG grounding

• ​Attention sinks

• ​Rerank filtering

• ​Context weighting

• ​Detection scoring

​All demonstrated by hand ✍️ in Excel!

​🔥 This lecture is sponsored by Vectara and registrants will opt into their communications.