arXiv Computer Vision

Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery

arXiv AI
Jun 30

FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 29431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they remain susceptible to hallucination, generating content inconsistent with the input image.

By Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Fenglai Lin, Yiding Sun, Dongshuo Zhang, Wenya Wang, Lin William Cong, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Mitigating Object Hallucinations in LVLMs via Attention Imbalance Rectification

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.

By Han Sun, Qin Li, Peixin Wang, Min Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Revealing Multi-View Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

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.

By Wooje Park, Insu Lee, Soohyun Kim, Jaeyun Jang, Minyoung Noh, Kyuhong Shim, Byonghyo Shim
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Dynamic Alignment Compensation for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Dynamic Alignment Compensation (DAC), a training‑free inference‑time technique designed to reduce hallucinations in Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs). DAC monitors cross‑modal representation drift across decoder layers and generation steps, applying lightweight residual compensation through Layer‑wise Semantic Compensation and Sequential Semantic Correction. Experiments on nine multimodal benchmarks across various LVLM backbones demonstrate that DAC consistently lowers hallucination rates while preserving overall performance.

By Kairong Yu, Zixin Zhu, Le Yu, Hongwei Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Segmentation-Based Attention Entropy: Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Segmentation-Based Attention Entropy (SAE), a method that uses semantic segmentation to measure visual attention uncertainty in large vision‑language models (LVLMs). SAE provides a reliability score for detecting hallucinated objects and an attention‑adjustment technique that reduces hallucinations during inference. Experiments on public benchmarks and real quadruped robot scenarios demonstrate that SAE improves LVLM reliability without requiring additional training.

By Jiale Song, Jiaxin Luo, Xue-song Tang, Kuangrong Hao, Mingbo Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 7

SeeMe: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Effective Visual Token Engineering

arXiv:2607. 04163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering.

By Kai Tang, Jinhao You, Bohua Zhang, Yichen Guo, Yiding Sun, Dongxu Zhang, Chenxi Li, Xiande Huang, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Hallucination in Multimodal Foundation Models: A Survey on Causes, Corrections, and Evaluations

The article surveys hallucination issues in Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs), a type of multimodal foundation model that blends visual data with large language models. It categorizes hallucination causes into model architecture and data quality, presents a taxonomy of mitigation strategies, and critically evaluates existing evaluation benchmarks from both discriminative and generative viewpoints. The survey also outlines open challenges and future research directions to improve LVLM reliability and trustworthiness.

By Yinghao Guo, Wei Lan, Wenyi Chen, Qingfeng Chen, Shichao Zhang, Shirui Pan, Huiyu Zhou, Yi Pan