arXiv AI June 16, 2026 By Han Sun, Qin Li, Peixin Wang, Min Zhang

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.

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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 Machine Learning

Jun 9

Steer Where It Matters: Token-Level Visual-Sensitivity Steering for LVLMs Hallucination Mitigation

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Correcting Visual Blur Induced by Attention Distraction to Reduce Hallucinations: Algorithm and Theory

arXiv:2605. 24602v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from object hallucinations, yet the visual perceptual mechanism underlying this failure remains poorly understood.

By Quanjiang Li, Zhiming Liu, Wei Luo, Tingjin Luo, Chenping Hou

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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 AI

Jul 7

SeeMe: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Effective Visual Token Engineering

arXiv:2607. 04163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering.

By Kai Tang, Jinhao You, Bohua Zhang, Yichen Guo, Yiding Sun, Dongxu Zhang, Chenxi Li, Xiande Huang, Shanghang Zhang

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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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