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
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.
By Zichuan Wang, Songlin Yang, Bo Peng, Zhenchen Tang, Yang Li, Beibei Dong, Jing Dong
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
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.
By Mehrdad Fazli, Sina Mansouri, Mohit Marvania, Ziwei Zhu
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: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.
By Ruipeng Zhang, Zhihao Li, C. L. Philip Chen, Tong Zhang
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...
By Siqi Lu, Suo Wei, Yongbin Zheng, Jianhang Yao, Wanying Xu, Peng Wang
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
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: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.
By Dvir Samuel, Guy Bar-Shalom, Fabrizio Frasca, Ethan Fetaya, Yftah Ziser, Gal Chechik, Haggai Maron
arXiv:2608. 08167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at open-ended captioning and visual QA but often describe objects, attributes, or relations absent from the image, a phenomenon known as object hallucination.
By Ameen Ali, Tamim Zoabi, Lidor Brami, Lior Wolf
arXiv:2602. 01740v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video language models (Video-LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, generating plausible but ungrounded content when visual evidence is weak, ambiguous, or biased.
By Qixin Xiao, Kun Zhou