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LongNovel: A Multi-Scale Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Long-Context Novel Summarization

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arXiv:2608.18082 (cs)
[Submitted on 4 Jun 2026]

Title:LongNovel: A Multi-Scale Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Long-Context Novel Summarization

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Abstract:Although context windows have expanded significantly in recent years, hallucinations in long-context summarization remain a challenge. Long novels are better suited than news or papers for researching these hallucinations, due to their intrinsic information and detailed descriptions of events and dialogues. However, current research lacks a multi-scale benchmark for hallucination detection in long-context novel summarization and does not fully explore how hallucinations change as the context grows longer. In this study, we propose LongNovel, a multi-scale long-context bilingual (Chinese and English) novel benchmark for hallucination detection. This benchmark is constructed from 29 Chinese novels (ranging from 16k to 100k tokens) and chapter-level data from the BookSum dataset. We design 8 hallucination types and employ a combination of Multi-Model Arbitration and Entity-Referenced Hallucination Generation to ensure both data authenticity and a balanced distribution of hallucination categories. Furthermore, we manually revise the content in the test set to guarantee data reliability. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that LongNovel is a challenging benchmark. We release LongNovel for future research. this https URL
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2608.18082 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2608.18082v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.18082
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From: Zhang Ruizhi [view email]
[v1] Thu, 4 Jun 2026 04:12:30 UTC (2,263 KB)
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