Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across many multimodal tasks; however, they often exploit spurious object-background correlations, resulting in predictions driven by co...
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...
By Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie, Sarah Erfani
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:2608.29996v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across many multimodal tasks; however, they often exploit spurious object-background...
By Aditi Sarker, Nazreen Shah, Rafi Ibn Sultan, Rhongho Jang, Dongxiao Zhu, Prashant Khanduri
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:2609.16646v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When strong multimodal models are widely available, progress requires new scientific methodologies beyond benchmark scores---using models as instrument...
By Zhipeng Zhao, Wenxu Wang, Peishun Liu, Ruichun Tang
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
arXiv:2607. 14499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial advances on benchmarks, yet their real-world effectiveness remains uncertain.
By Yijiang Li, Huiqi Zou, Bingyang Wang, Ziang Xiao
The paper introduces CAIT, a benchmark of 400 synthetic scenes featuring counter‑intuitive actions that challenge multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Human participants and proprietary models like Claude and Gemini perform well, but standard open‑source instruction‑tuned MLLMs fail, largely due to a strong language prior that overrides contradictory visual evidence. The study shows that Chain‑of‑Thought reasoning can help but introduces new issues, while targeted fine‑tuning and structured prompting can reduce reliance on language priors and improve visual grounding.
By Chen Ling, Tongwei Zhang, Hanqian Li, Nai Ding
The paper examines a specific type of hallucination in large language models caused by spurious correlations—unintended, statistically prominent associations in training data such as surnames linked to nationalities. These hallucinations are confidently produced, persist regardless of model scaling or refusal fine‑tuning, and evade existing detection methods like confidence filtering and inner‑state probing. The authors use controlled synthetic experiments and evaluations on both open‑source and proprietary LLMs, including GPT‑5, to demonstrate the failure of current detection techniques and provide a theoretical explanation for why statistical biases undermine confidence‑based approaches.
By Shaowen Wang, Yiqi Dong, Ruinian Chang, Tansheng Zhu, Yuebo Sun, Kaifeng Lyu, Jian Li
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...
By Peiyang Xu, Xiaopei Zhu, Jun Zhu, Xiaolin Hu
In 2026, we held the fourth iteration of the SHROOM Shared Task series: SHROOM-Visions (\textbf{S}hared-task on \textbf{H}allucinations and \textbf{R}elated \textbf{O}bservable \textbf{O}vergeneration...