The paper introduces a position‑aware rubric that breaks down long image captions into atomic visual claims, allowing verification of generated text against these claims and revealing distinct failure modes: unsupported specificity in the middle and vague language at the end. Using this diagnosis, the authors propose PAGER, a reinforcement learning objective that provides separate rewards for middle evidence, tail continuation, claim coverage, and length control. Experiments on detailed‑caption benchmarks show that PAGER improves position‑wise grounding and pairwise caption preference while maintaining overall caption quality.
By Yuanze Hu, Zhichao Yang, Junwei Jing, Xin Yang, Wenxuan Liu, Tinghai Zhang, Jia Fu, Hongzhi Zhang, Xiangyu Wu, Ruiming Tang, Tingting Gao, Han Li
arXiv:2606. 17678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) integrate strong text reasoning with visual inputs, yet their responses can be inconsistent with the underlying images, indicating ineffective utilization of visual evidence during inference.
By Yilian Liu, Sicong Leng, Guoshun Nan, Junyi Zhu, Jiayu Huang, Minghao Sun, Xuancheng Zhu, Yisong Chen, Zexian Wei, Xiaofeng Tao
arXiv:2609.36893v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detailed image captioning requires accurate and comprehensive descriptions of fine-grained visual content, yet caption quality spans factual accuracy,...
By Zhenwen Ji, Lei Jin, Shanyong Wang, Jiaming Lu, Chengqiang Lu, Yi Wu, Yao Hu, Lizhen Cui, Yanyu Xu
arXiv:2609.00591v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An image may be worth a thousand words, but most captioning models describe it in only a few. Modern vision-language models produce fluent high-level c...
By Suryaansh Jain, Rahasya Barkur, Vishal G, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Jack Wang, Koustava Goswami, Nedim Lipka, Puneet Mathur, Samyadeep Basu, Seunghyun Yoon
arXiv:2605. 01733v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) hallucinate objects that are not present, and a growing line of work tries to curb this by feeding the model its own generated caption as auxiliary evidence -- assuming that a caption, once available, is something to consume.
By Zeshang Li, Shuoyang Zhang
Object hallucination in multimodal large language models arises when language priors and corpus co-occurrence bias outweigh the visual evidence, with nothing tying an individual object mention to what the image shows. Most remedies intervene at decoding time without training, yet under a unified protocol their benefit is confined to short captions;supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on a detail- rich corpus lengthens captions, but over forty percent still name absent objects.