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MIRAGE-Bench: LLM Agent is Hallucinating and Where to Find Them

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Pith's one-line read Interactive LLM agents routinely take actions that are unfaithful to their instructions, history, or observations, and MIRAGE-Bench measures exactly how often.

desk verdict A genuinely useful benchmark for agent hallucination, but every headline number rides on an LLM judge that agrees with humans only 76% of the time on a small balanced sample, so the quantitative findings should be treated as preliminary. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.21017 v1 pith:7WGCDAJU submitted 2025-07-28 cs.AI

Weichen Zhang , Yiyou Sun , Pohao Huang , Jiayue Pu , Heyue Lin , Dawn Song This is my paper
classification cs.AI
keywords LLMagentshallucinationagenticbenchmarkLLM-as-a-Judgecontextualsnapshotsrisksettingsfaithfulnessevaluation
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

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The reading

Interactive LLM agents do not just say false things; they take false actions, such as clicking buttons that do not exist, assuming a chat window switched when it did not, or answering a user question that lies outside their task. The paper argues that these failures can be studied systematically rather than encountered by chance. It proposes a unified taxonomy of agentic hallucination: actions unfaithful to task instructions, to the agent's own interaction history, or to its environment observations. It then builds MIRAGE-Bench, which freezes agents at risky decision points in six environments and uses a risk-aware LLM judge to score the next action as faithful, incomplete, or hallucinated. Across twelve evaluated models, every one shows utility scores typically below 0.6 and hallucination rates often above 0.3, suggesting that scaling and instruction tuning alone do not cure agentic hallucination.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the contextual snapshot coupled with a risk-aware LLM-as-a-Judge. The snapshot freezes one decision point, consisting of instruction, history, and observation, so that a stochastic interactive trajectory becomes a deterministic test case; this is what makes hallucination elicitable and reproducible. The judge then reads the same context the agent saw and scores the next action on a three-level utility rubric (faithful, incomplete, hallucinated), with risk-setting-specific prompts rather than a generic correctness checker. The three-part taxonomy of unfaithfulness (instruction, history, observation) organizes both the risk settings and the scoring criteria, while the reported metrics are utility score, the average over snapshots, and hallucination rate, the fraction scored as hallucinated.

What would settle it

Take a random sample of snapshots spanning all six risk settings, have independent human annotators label the agent actions, and compare the resulting hallucination rates and model rankings to those produced by the LLM judge. If the judge's agreement with humans drops below roughly 0.75 or the model ordering changes materially, the headline utility scores and hallucination rates are not stable.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that hallucinations in interactive LLM agents are a measurable, systematic phenomenon with recognizable triggers. It identifies six recurring risk settings, namely out-of-scope queries, unexpected environmental transitions, unachievable goal states, ill-specified instructions, flawed interaction histories (repetitive and erroneous), and pop-up distractions, and shows that each can be captured as a contextual snapshot: the agent's task instruction, full interaction history, and current observation frozen immediately before a hallucination-prone decision. Against these snapshots, an LLM judge assigns a utility score (2 for faithful, 1 for incomplete, 0 for hallucinated), and the benchmark reports utility score and hallucination rate. The empirical result is that all evaluated models, open-source and proprietary, hallucinate frequently in these settings, with proprietary models holding only a modest edge over open-source counterparts.

Load-bearing premise

The headline results assume the LLM judge labels actions almost as well as a human would; if the judge is wrong on a sizable share of cases, every reported utility score and hallucination rate shifts.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Agent hallucination rate becomes a regular evaluation axis for interactive agents, alongside task success rate.
  • Model rankings shift when measured on action fidelity: an open-source model like Qwen2.5-32B can match GPT-4o, so raw capability gaps do not guarantee faithfulness gaps.
  • Recurring hallucination patterns, such as fabricating buttons, assuming successful transitions, and inventing answers to out-of-scope queries, can be targeted with environment-specific interventions.
  • The snapshot format allows scalable testing without maintaining full dynamic environments, since only the frozen context is needed for evaluation.
  • Because all models fail at similar risk settings, these settings can serve as controlled testbeds for alignment and mitigation methods.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the LLM judge's agreement with humans holds on larger samples, the reported utility scores and hallucination rates could become a reusable reference point; if not, model rankings may need to be re-derived with stronger verification.
  • The snapshot methodology could extend beyond the six risk settings to other agent failure modes, such as safety violations, privacy leaks, or tool misuse, by defining new risk triggers and judge rubrics.
  • The near-universal robustness to text-injected pop-ups suggests that observation modality, such as accessibility tree versus screenshot, may be part of the cure rather than just the evaluation; multimodal pop-up variants would test this directly.
  • An implicit promise of the benchmark is that decision-point hallucination rates predict real rollout harm; a rollout-based study connecting snapshot scores to end-to-end task outcomes would test that assumption.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 8 minor

Summary. The paper presents MIRAGE-Bench, a benchmark for measuring hallucinations of LLM agents in interactive environments. It proposes a taxonomy of three hallucination types (unfaithful to task instructions, interaction history, and environment observations) and identifies six risk settings (out-of-scope queries, unexpected environmental transitions, unachievable goal states, ill-specified instructions, flawed interaction history with repetitive and erroneous sub-types, and pop-up distractions). Test cases are constructed by replaying agents in WebArena, WorkArena, TheAgentCompany, τ-Bench, OSWorld, and SWE-Bench, manually filtering trajectories to keep decision points where a hallucination-relevant risk is present, freezing these points as contextual snapshots, and scaling them through LLM-based synthetic edits. The evaluation uses an LLM-as-a-Judge (o4-mini) with risk-setting-specific zero-shot prompts, producing a three-level utility score (0/0.5/1) that is aggregated into Utility Score (US) and Hallucination Rate (HR). The paper reports results for twelve models, finding that all models show US typically below 0.6 and HR often above 0.3, that the open-versus-proprietary gap is narrow (Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct roughly matches GPT-4o), and that hallucination patterns such as fabricating buttons and assuming prior success recur across models.

Significance. If the benchmark's evaluation is trustworthy, MIRAGE-Bench is a useful contribution: it is the first unified, snapshot-based testbed for agentic hallucinations that spans multiple environments and risk settings, and it provides a reproducible evaluation protocol. The snapshot strategy is a clever way to avoid stochastic trajectory divergence, and the risk-setting-specific judge prompts are more principled than a generic correctness checker. The paper ships code and a dataset, which supports reproduction, and the authors validate the judge against human annotations, across model families, and under prompt perturbation. However, the validity of every quantitative conclusion depends on the LLM judge, and the current validation is too thin to support the headline numbers: a 160-sample balanced subset with 75–77% agreement leaves roughly a quarter of judgments in doubt, and the actual benchmark's class distribution is unreported. The absence of dataset size, per-setting counts, and confidence intervals further weakens the cross-model claims.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 4.3, Appendix B.2] The LLM-as-a-Judge is the sole verifier behind all reported US/HR values (Eqs. 2–3 and Table 6), yet its agreement with human annotations is only Accuracy = 0.756 and ZeroAcc = 0.789 on a 160-sample subset that was deliberately balanced across risk settings and approximate utility-score levels. This balanced design does not reflect the deployed benchmark's class distribution, and the paper does not report a confusion matrix, per-risk-setting accuracy, or human-annotation agreement, so the judge's operating accuracy on the actual snapshot set is unknown. Because a judge that is stable under temperature and prompt changes (Tables 8–9) can still be systematically biased toward a particular score class or model family, the headline findings (US typically below 0.6, HR often above 0.3, and the narrow open-versus-closed gap) could be evaluator artifacts. Please add a validation on a representative sample of the actual benchmark distribution, or an explicit bias analysis showing how much the headline numbers would shift under plausible judge false-positive/false-negative rates.
  2. [Section 5, Eqs. (2)–(3), Table 6] The total number of snapshot contexts |C| is never stated, and per-risk-setting and per-environment sample counts are absent. Without these counts the point estimates in Table 6 have unknown precision, and the claim that Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (US = 0.581) is competitive with GPT-4o (US = 0.569) cannot be distinguished from sampling noise. The stability analysis in Appendix B.3/B.4 reports run-to-run variation for three models, but it does not characterize sampling uncertainty over the snapshot set itself. Please report |C| and per-setting/per-environment sample sizes, and add confidence intervals (e.g., binomial CIs for HR and US) to Table 6.
  3. [Sections 4.2 and 4.3] The same model family, o4-mini, is used both to synthesize test-case content (e.g., out-of-scope NPC queries in Section A.1 and misleading reasoning in Section A.4) and to judge the resulting agent actions. This shared generator–judge setup can systematically favor behaviors that match o4-mini's own linguistic and reasoning style, and the 160-sample human validation is too small and too balanced to rule out such a bias. The paper should either use an independent judge (or a panel of judges) for the main results, or provide per-model-family score distributions and a demonstration that the reported open-versus-closed gaps are not attributable to this shared-model design.
  4. [Table 6, footnote on DeepSeek models] DeepSeek-chat and DeepSeek-reasoner are marked as incomplete because some snapshots exceed their context windows, yet Table 6 reports their US/HR values without stating how many snapshots were skipped or how missing data were handled. This is load-bearing for the 'all evaluated models' claim and for the open-versus-proprietary comparison, particularly because DeepSeek-reasoner shows the best overall US (0.641) and lowest HR (0.257) in the table. Please report the number of evaluated snapshots per model, repeat the aggregate analysis on the common set of snapshots that all models can process, and either exclude or clearly annotate models with substantial missing data.
minor comments (8)
  1. [Figure 1] The left panel of Figure 1 gives percentages that sum to 100%, but the underlying counts per risk setting are not provided; please add the number of trajectories or snapshots per category.
  2. [Appendix B.2] The description of the 160-sample subset says it is 'approximately evenly distributed across three utility score levels'; please state the exact counts per level and per risk setting, and specify how borderline samples were assigned.
  3. [Appendix A.1, Verification Design] The Score 2 criterion reads 'Agent explicitly acknowledges user's query but nonetheless provides a fabricated response,' which contradicts the surrounding rubric and Table 4; this appears to be a typo and should read 'does not provide a fabricated response' or similar.
  4. [Appendices A.4.1 and A.5.1] Both appendices contain the misspelling 'Data Consturction'; please correct it to 'Data Construction'.
  5. [Throughout] The name 'MIRAGE-B ENCH' appears with an inconsistent space in multiple places (e.g., the abstract, Section 1, and Table 1); please standardize to 'MIRAGE-Bench' or 'MIRAGE-BENCH'.
  6. [Section 4.1] The text says 'in the upper case of Figure 2 (left),' but Figure 2 is not divided into left/right panels; please refer to the specific example in the figure instead.
  7. [Table 3] Table 3 lists 'Flawed Interaction History' with two subtypes in one cell separated by a line break; please split these into explicit sub-rows or use a clear sub-list so the two settings are not conflated.
  8. [Appendix B.4] The statement that 'the reported performance gaps are consistent and meaningful rather than resulting from sampling variability alone' is not supported by the three-run stability analysis, which does not control for snapshot-level sampling; please temper this wording or add a statistical test that accounts for the snapshot sample.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the benchmark construction, LLM-judge scoring, and reported metrics are each externally anchored and not fitted to the paper's own conclusions.

full rationale

The paper's central claims are empirical measurements from a fixed benchmark. Test cases are constructed from existing agent trajectories, frozen as contextual snapshots at decision points, and then scored by an LLM judge whose judgments are validated against human annotations on a 160-sample subset. The utility score in Eq. (1) is an operational definition assigned by the judge, and the hallucination rate in Eq. (3) is a direct aggregation of those scores, so the metrics are not fitted parameters renamed as predictions. The use of o4-mini both to synthesize some test-case observations and to serve as judge is a methodological concern about evaluator bias, but it is not a circular derivation: the faithfulness of an action is determined by the frozen context (e.g., whether a referenced button exists in the accessibility tree), not by the judge's prior outputs, and the judge's reliability is independently checked against human labels. Risk settings were deliberately selected to elicit hallucinations, so high hallucination rates are partly by design; nevertheless, the measured rates still come from fresh model outputs and vary across risk settings and models, showing the measurement is not guaranteed by construction. No load-bearing self-citation, imported uniqueness theorem, or ansatz-smuggling step is present. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained, and any concerns about judge accuracy or benchmark selection belong to correctness risk rather than circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are postulated. The six risk settings are categorization constructs, and the free parameters are hand-chosen thresholds and utility weights. The main unstated costs are the judge reliability assumption and the static snapshot assumption.

free parameters (2)
  • Utility score weights = 1 / 0.5 / 0
    Hand-chosen weights for faithful, incomplete, and hallucinated actions in Eq. (1); these drive the reported Utility Score.
  • Repetition threshold = 3, with extreme cases at 6
    Hand-chosen cutoff for defining a repetitive interaction loop when extracting Flawed Interaction History (repetitive) snapshots in Section A.6.1.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Agent behavior decomposes into task instructions, interaction history, and current observations (ReAct-style).
    Section 3 uses this decomposition to define the taxonomy and to design all judge rubrics.
  • domain assumption LLM-as-a-Judge scores reflect true hallucination status.
    Section 4.3 and Appendix B.2 validate the judge on 160 samples with Accuracy 0.756 to 0.769, so roughly a quarter of judgments may disagree with human labels.
  • domain assumption A frozen contextual snapshot preserves the same decision point as live interaction.
    Section 4.2 freezes states to remove stochasticity, but this cannot capture multi-step corrections, which the authors acknowledge in the Conclusion.
  • ad hoc to paper Manual filtering of trajectories isolates hallucination-related failures.
    Section 4.2 describes excluding non-hallucination failures; this curation is necessary for benchmark design but is subjective and affects reported hallucination rates.

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Hallucinations pose critical risks for large language model (LLM)-based agents, often manifesting as hallucinative actions resulting from fabricated or misinterpreted information within the cognitive context. While recent studies have exposed such failures, existing evaluations remain fragmented and lack a principled testbed. In this paper, we present MIRAGE-Bench--Measuring Illusions in Risky AGEnt settings--the first unified benchmark for eliciting and evaluating hallucinations in interactive LLM-agent scenarios. We begin by introducing a three-part taxonomy to address agentic hallucinations: actions that are unfaithful to (i) task instructions, (ii) execution history, or (iii) environment observations. To analyze, we first elicit such failures by performing a systematic audit of existing agent benchmarks, then synthesize test cases using a snapshot strategy that isolates decision points in deterministic and reproducible manners. To evaluate hallucination behaviors, we adopt a fine-grained-level LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm with tailored risk-aware prompts, enabling scalable, high-fidelity assessment of agent actions without enumerating full action spaces. MIRAGE-Bench provides actionable insights on failure modes of LLM agents and lays the groundwork for principled progress in mitigating hallucinations in interactive environments.

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Figure 2. Examples of each risk setting, showing the contextual input, the hallucinated action [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Constructing and scaling contextual snapshot data in MIRAGE-BENCH, shown with the Out of Scope Queries risk setting as an example. (a) Risk-inducing tasks are rolled out by multiple LLM agents in heterogeneous dynamic environments, logging interaction trajectories. (b) Retain the decision point that hits the target risk setting and store its full input (instruction, history, observation) as a contextual snapshot. (c… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The screenshot of the full conversation between Sarah Johnson (NPC) and the Sonnet-3.5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison between real and generated NPC axtree nodes in step [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The screenshot of the web page clearly shows that there is no column named “Company [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Examples of SWE-agent actions: code exploration and code editing with execution. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Screenshot of the user interface with a popup element present. The popup visually occludes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Accessibility tree corresponding to Figure 8. Elements in green represent the main interface; [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_9.png]

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    list ’’, visible, bid=2005

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    listitem ’’, bid=2006

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    listitem ’’, bid=2009

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    2010

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