@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-hallucinations, title = "Hallucinations as Orthogonal Noise: Inference-Time Manifold Alignment via Dynamic Contextual Orthogonalization", author = "Zhao, Mingkuan and Hu, Wentao and Huang, Tianchen and Min, Yuheng and Chen, Suquan and Gao, Yide and Zhai, Yanbo and Song, Shuangyong and Li, Xuelong", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1822/", pages = "36575--36586", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }