arXiv:2607. 07507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hallucinations in vision language models (VLMs) are commonly treated as semantic errors, yet they often arise from partial or ambiguous visual evidence.
By Feng He, Zhenting Wang, Qifan Wang, Qiang Guan, Dongfang Liu, Ruixiang Tang, Qiankun Li
arXiv:2605. 16411v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hallucination remains a fundamental challenge in vision-language models (VLMs), where autoregressive generation may produce linguistically plausible yet physically inconsistent or visually ungrounded responses due to likelihood maximization under joint probabilistic modeling.
By Qinwu Xu
arXiv:2608. 03450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires both fine-grained visual perception and rigorous logical deduction.
By Haoqian Kang, Liupeng Li, Kuofeng Gao, Jinpeng Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Bin Chen, Ke Chen, Yaowei Wang
arXiv:2611.06415v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress on cross-modal reasoning tasks, yet they continue to suffer from halluci...
By Jiaqi Deng, Zhe Fu, Yakun Chen, Dichang Zhang, Zonghan Wu, Xiaoshui Huang, Huan Huo, Guandong Xu
arXiv:2605. 16411v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hallucination remains a fundamental challenge in vision-language models (VLMs), where autoregressive generation may produce linguistically plausible yet physically inconsistent or visually ungrounded responses due to likelihood maximization under joint probabilistic modeling.
By Qinwu Xu
The paper introduces LIRSeg, a method that replaces explicit Chain-of-Thought reasoning in multimodal large language models with a compact set of learnable latent tokens for reasoning segmentation. LIRSeg is trained in two stages—spatial alignment and GRPO—while employing extreme-advantage sampling, decoupled exploration-stability updates, and latent diversity amplification to enhance token informativeness. Experiments show that LIRSeg improves segmentation accuracy and reasoning efficiency, achieving significant gIoU gains over the VisionReasoner baseline and reducing reasoning tokens by about 16×.
By Tianhang Guo, Yulin He, Wei Chen, Wenjuan Zhou, Yuhang Li, Xinbiao Gan
OmniHallu is a unified framework for detecting hallucinations in multimodal large language models across both comprehension and generation tasks involving image, video, and audio modalities. It introduces OmniHallu-Bench, a 10,000-sample benchmark with claim-level human annotations for six cross-modal tasks (I2T, V2T, A2T, T2I, T2V, T2A). The system uses a multi‑agent architecture that decomposes outputs into atomic claims, verifies them with modality‑specific experts, and aggregates evidence through structured reasoning, while a preference‑optimized verifier reduces expert calls by 66% with minimal performance loss.
By Jianjiang Yang, Peihang Li, Shanqing Xu, Mengchen Qian, Lu Zhang, Meng Luo
arXiv:2605.13156v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in bridging visual perception and natural language understanding, enabling...
By Jiaxin Liu, Ding Zhong, Yue Wang, Zhidong Yang, Zhaolu Kang, Guangyuan Dong, Qishi Zhan, Pengcheng Fang, Aofan Liu
arXiv:2606. 26387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with visual perception, enabling joint reasoning over images and text.
By Xi Xiao, Chen Liu, Chih-Ting Liao, Yunbei Zhang, Qizhen Lan, Yuxiang Wei, Lin Zhao, Janet Wang, Jianyang Gu, Muchao Ye, Tianyang Wang, Hao Xu
The paper introduces AIMS (Adaptive Information Multi-source Steering), a lightweight, training‑free framework that dynamically balances visual, prefilled textual, and generated contexts during decoding to reduce hallucinations in Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs). By constructing compact prototypes for each context domain and estimating their affinities with the current query, AIMS assigns head‑wise steering weights that guide adaptive context integration without extra training or forward passes. Experiments across multiple LVLMs and decoding strategies show that AIMS effectively mitigates object hallucination while preserving general multimodal performance.
By Shuran Ma, JiaLe Li, Yuxin Dong, Shan Zheng, Qingyun Jiang, Xiang Chen, Qi Zhu, Deyi Ji, Yifan Yang, Jianfeng Pan, Yu Tian, Xue Yang
ClueTracer is a training‑free, parameter‑free plugin that suppresses hallucinations in multimodal reasoning models by tracing how visual clues propagate from the question through the model’s reasoning pathway. It localizes task‑relevant image patches while ignoring irrelevant regions, thereby addressing the problem of reasoning drift where models over‑focus on question‑irrelevant entities. The method improves performance across various reasoning architectures by an average of 1.21× on reasoning benchmarks.
By Gongli Xi, Kun Wang, Zeming Gao, Huahui Yi, Haolang Lu, Qianshan Wei, Ye Tian, Wendong Wang
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-image scenarios requiring complex reasoning across visual contexts. However, current MLLMs remain fundamentally limited by o...