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arXiv:2608.21819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable image captioning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires captions to be both precise and complete, avoiding unsupported object mentions wh...
The paper investigates why vision‑language models like LLaVA‑1.5‑7B hallucinate objects in captions and proposes a targeted fix. By ranking attention heads whose image attention drops around hallucinated words, the authors identify 32 key heads and apply a head‑sliced LoRA adapter plus an inference‑time grounding controller. On COCO images, this combined method reduces hallucinated captions from 37% to 23% and hallucinated object mentions from 15.6% to 9.6%, while also lowering object recall.
In 2026, the SHROOM-Visions shared task was launched at the UncertaiNLP Workshop co‑located with EMNLP to address hallucinations in large vision‑language models. The task builds on the SHEEP dataset and asks participants to detect and classify fine‑grained hallucination spans in image‑conditioned text generation across four languages (Chinese, English, French, Italian) using a five‑class taxonomy. The competition attracted 27 teams and over 600 system submissions, with top systems achieving character‑level, label‑conditioned, and IoU scores of 0.58, 0.46, and 0.51 respectively, surpassing baselines by 30‑40 points.
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.
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...
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...