arXiv AI

Dismantling Pathological Shortcuts: A Causal Framework for Faithful LVLM Decoding

arXiv:2606. 27596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit sophisticated reasoning but remain susceptible to object hallucination.

arXiv AI

Aug 10

Same Attention, Different Truths: Put Logit-Lens over Visual Attention to Detect and Mitigate LVLM Object Hallucination

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Mitigating Object Hallucinations in LVLMs via Attention Imbalance Rectification

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Disentangling Semantic Attention from Structural Bias in the Attention Manifold

arXiv:2607. 24017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The empirical success of attention mechanism in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often obscures its inherent, subtle flaws.

By Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen, Yu-gang Jiang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 26

Staying VIGILant: Mitigating Visual Laziness via Counterfactual Visual Alignment in MLLMs

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models

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.

By Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Fenglai Lin, Yiding Sun, Dongshuo Zhang, Wenya Wang, Lin William Cong, Shanghang Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 12

UniProbe: A Learnable Token-Level Hallucination Detector for Large VLMs using Multi-Structural Internal Representations

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 24

When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605. 08245v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate, confidently describing content not present in the input.

By Harshvardhan Saini, Samyak Jha, Yiming Tang, Dianbo Liu

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arXiv AI

Jul 13

GrAInS: Gradient-based Attribution for Inference-Time Steering of LLMs and VLMs

arXiv:2507. 18043v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-time steering methods offer a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) by modifying internal activations at test time without updating model weights.

By Duy Nguyen, Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 03358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study how visual information is routed in vision-language models (VLMs).

By Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata, Desmond Elliott, Constanza Fierro

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

HIVE: Understanding Post-Hallucination Reasoning in Vision Language Models

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

Contextualized Evaluation of Vision Language Models through Dynamic, Multi-turn Interactions

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 17389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Foundation Models are increasingly used as reasoning agents, making reliability, knowing when a model may hallucinate, critical.

By Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan, Ishan Dave, Saadullah Ismail, Shikhar Shiromani, Emily Huang, Ruizhe Li, Kevin Zhu

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