The paper introduces CADMP, a lightweight framework for detecting object hallucinations in large vision‑language models. CADMP measures cross‑modal attention drift between adjacent layers and verifies predictions by masking visually relevant regions, combining these signals to identify hallucinated outputs. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that CADMP achieves competitive detection performance, and ablation studies confirm the complementary roles of attention drift and mask‑based verification.
Despite recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs), object hallucination remains a major barrier to their reliable deployment. Existing detection methods often characterize visual groundi...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
The paper introduces SAGE, a lightweight method that guides decoder attention in vision-language models away from prompt‑invariant attention sinks (PIS) toward query‑dependent regions of interest (ROIs). By using token‑aligned ROI masks from vision backbones like CLIP, ViT, and DINOv3, SAGE improves visual grounding and reduces hallucinations across various VLM families. Experiments show consistent gains on public vision‑language benchmarks, especially in fine‑grained visual discrimination tasks where localized evidence is essential.
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...
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.
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.
ReWEIGH the Evidence is a training‑free decoding technique that calibrates token‑level ordinal visual evidence to reduce hallucinations in large vision‑language models. It aggregates vocabulary ranks across visual positions, compares candidates to a token‑specific reference derived from unlabeled images, and applies a bounded penalty only when evidence falls below this reference. Experiments on four 7B backbones show up to a 21.3% reduction in hallucinated object mentions while largely preserving or improving descriptive and general performance, with minimal added latency.
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.