How to reduce hallucinations when using LLMs for data analysis tasks?
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I'm building a system where users ask questions about their data in natural language, and an LLM generates SQL queries and interprets results.
The problem: The LLM often "hallucinates" insights that aren't supported by the actual data.
Example:
- User asks: "What's our top-selling product?"
- LLM correctly generates SQL
- But then adds: "This is likely due to the recent marketing campaign" (we had no such campaign)
What I've tried:
- Strict system prompts saying "only state facts from the data"
- Few-shot examples of good vs bad responses
- Temperature = 0 for deterministic output
Still getting hallucinations. How do production data analysis tools handle this? Should I use a separate verification step?
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