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SemEval-2025 Task 3: Mu-SHROOM, the Multilingual Shared Task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes

16 Apr 2025arXiv:2504.11975archive 2025-07-28

Raúl Vázquez, Timothee Mickus, Elaine Zosa, Teemu Vahtola, Jörg Tiedemann, Aman Sinha, Vincent Segonne, Fernando Sánchez-Vega, Alessandro Raganato, Jindřich Libovický, Jussi Karlgren, Shaoxiong Ji, Jindřich Helcl, Liane Guillou, Ona de Gibert, Jaione Bengoetxea, Joseph Attieh, Marianna Apidianaki

We present the Mu-SHROOM shared task which is focused on detecting hallucinations and other overgeneration mistakes in the output of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs). Mu-SHROOM addresses general-purpose LLMs in 14 languages, and frames the hallucination detection problem as a span-labeling task. We received 2,618 submissions from 43 participating teams employing diverse methodologies. The large number of submissions underscores the interest of the community in hallucination detection. We present the results of the participating systems and conduct an empirical analysis to identify key factors contributing to strong performance in this task. We also emphasize relevant current challenges, notably the varying degree of hallucinations across languages and the high annotator disagreement when labeling hallucination spans.

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