The paper introduces QK Product Steering, a data‑free, training‑free method that edits the query‑key product in vision‑language models to reduce object hallucination. By suppressing a few dominant singular modes in selected middle layers and mapping the edited product back to query weights, the approach lowers hallucination rates without affecting inference cost. Experiments on three GQA‑based VLMs show a 4.0% average reduction in CHAIR$_s$, with the effect localized to symmetric mutual‑attention channels.
arXiv:2606. 04032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become the standard solution for various AI tasks, with the query, key, and value (QKV) attention formulation playing a central role.
arXiv:2608.23921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models encode high-resolution images into long visual token sequences, incurring prohibitive prefill costs. To compress them, ex...
arXiv:2608.22996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on diverse vision-language tasks, but transformer-based visual encoders split images into fixed-resolution s...
RAVE (Re-Allocating Visual Attention) is a lightweight pair‑gating mechanism that adds a learned query‑key bias to pre‑softmax attention scores over visual keys, derived from pre‑RoPE query and key features. It requires no architectural changes to the backbone and can be trained end‑to‑end with the rest of the model. Across multiple multimodal benchmarks, RAVE improves standard attention by an average of 3 points, especially on perception‑intensive tasks such as multilingual OCR, chart understanding, document VQA, and scene text VQA.
arXiv:2606. 01294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear attention reduces the quadratic cost of softmax attention by maintaining a recurrent fast-weight state, but it consistently lags on in-context retrieval and long-context tasks.
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on diverse vision-language tasks, but transformer-based visual encoders split images into fixed-resolution sub-images, compromising object integrity in light...
arXiv:2608. 06849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by quadratic attention computation and growing KV-cache costs.
arXiv:2605. 20950v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a bottleneck of prohibitive computational costs arising from massive visual token sequences during inference.
arXiv:2604. 00757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Vision Language Models show impressive performance across image and video understanding tasks, yet their computational cost grows rapidly with the number of visual tokens.
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:2509. 06461v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse visual tasks, yet their performance degrades in complex visual environments.
arXiv:2608. 10835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve impressive visual reasoning and dialogue capabilities, yet frequently hallucinate content unsupported by the visual input.