arXiv:2603. 24058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) severely compromises their reliability in real-world applications, posing a critical barrier to their deployment in high-stakes scenarios such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis.
arXiv:2608. 07302v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often suffer from object hallucination, generating objects that are absent from the image.
arXiv:2606. 07647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision language models (LVLMs) have made rapid advancements and are deployed across various applications, yet hallucinations remain a major challenge.
arXiv:2605. 24602v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from object hallucinations, yet the visual perceptual mechanism underlying this failure remains poorly understood.
arXiv:2609.00231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing research on object hallucination in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) predominantly attributes the problem to language priors such as o...
The paper examines six inference-time hallucination mitigation methods applied to three large vision-language models across four benchmarks, including MMStar. It finds that reducing hallucination rates often comes at the cost of lower informativeness—such as decreased object recall, visual coverage, and response detail—and that gains on hallucination benchmarks do not consistently translate to improved performance on fine-grained perception and reasoning tasks. The authors argue that current evaluation protocols may overstate progress by favoring conservative generation, and propose that hallucination mitigation should be assessed as a trade-off among faithfulness, informativeness, and overall capability.
arXiv:2608.30480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object hallucination remains a persistent reliability issue in large vision-language models, where generated object mentions may sound plausible but...
The paper introduces CADMP, a lightweight framework for detecting object hallucinations in large vision‑language models. CADMP measures cross‑modal attention drift between adjacent layers and verifies predictions by masking visually relevant regions, combining these signals to identify hallucinated outputs. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that CADMP achieves competitive detection performance, and ablation studies confirm the complementary roles of attention drift and mask‑based verification.
arXiv:2609.37263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve remarkable success, hallucinations remain a significant barrier to their reliable deployment. Recent...
The paper introduces the concept of multi-view hallucination (MVH), where large vision-language models produce incorrect answers when processing images from multiple viewpoints. It presents MVH-Bench, a benchmark of 4.8k question-answer pairs that target cross-instance and cross-view hallucinations, and shows that MVH is common across recent models. The authors propose Reference Shift Contrastive Decoding (RSCD), a training-free decoding method that mitigates visual interference, achieving significant performance gains on MVH-Bench with LLaVA-OneVision and Qwen2.5-VL.
ReWEIGH the Evidence is a training‑free decoding technique that calibrates token‑level ordinal visual evidence to reduce hallucinations in large vision‑language models. It aggregates vocabulary ranks across visual positions, compares candidates to a token‑specific reference derived from unlabeled images, and applies a bounded penalty only when evidence falls below this reference. Experiments on four 7B backbones show up to a 21.3% reduction in hallucinated object mentions while largely preserving or improving descriptive and general performance, with minimal added latency.
The paper investigates why vision‑language models like LLaVA‑1.5‑7B hallucinate objects in captions and proposes a targeted fix. By ranking attention heads whose image attention drops around hallucinated words, the authors identify 32 key heads and apply a head‑sliced LoRA adapter plus an inference‑time grounding controller. On COCO images, this combined method reduces hallucinated captions from 37% to 23% and hallucinated object mentions from 15.6% to 9.6%, while also lowering object recall.
Despite recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs), object hallucination remains a major barrier to their reliable deployment. Existing detection methods often characterize visual groundi...