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Weak-to-strong generalization provides a promising paradigm for scaling large language models (LLMs) by training stronger models on samples from aligned weaker ones, without requiring human feedback or explicit reward modeling. However, its…

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Over-reliance on language priors is a major cause of hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), often leading to outputs that are linguistically plausible but visually inconsistent. Recent studies have explored contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jianfei Zhao , Feng Zhang , Xin Sun , Lingxing Kong , Zhixing Tan , Chong Feng

Contrastive Decoding (CD) enhances the generation quality of large language models (LLMs) but incurs significant additional computational overhead due to the need for an auxiliary model. Existing internal self-contrastive decoding methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hong-Kai Zheng , Piji Li

It has always been an important yet challenging problem to control language models to avoid generating texts with undesirable attributes, such as toxic language and unnatural repetition. We introduce Click for controllable text generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chujie Zheng , Pei Ke , Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang

Dense retrieval (DR) has shown promising results in information retrieval. In essence, DR requires high-quality text representations to support effective search in the representation space. Recent studies have shown that pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinyu Ma , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Large language models (LLMs) excel at a range of tasks through in-context learning (ICL), where only a few task examples guide their predictions. However, prior research highlights that LLMs often overlook input-label mapping information in…

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Large audio-language models (LALMs) generalize across speech, sound, and music, but unified decoders can exhibit a \emph{temporal smoothing bias}: transient acoustic cues may be underutilized in favor of temporally smooth context that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yanda Li , Yuhan Liu , Zirui Song , Yunchao Wei , Martin Takáč , Salem Lahlou

The cross-entropy objective has proved to be an all-purpose training objective for autoregressive language models (LMs). However, without considering the penalization of problematic tokens, LMs trained using cross-entropy exhibit text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Shaojie Jiang , Ruqing Zhang , Svitlana Vakulenko , Maarten de Rijke

Recently, contrastive learning attracts increasing interests in neural text generation as a new solution to alleviate the exposure bias problem. It introduces a sequence-level training signal which is crucial to generation tasks that always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Chenxin An , Jiangtao Feng , Kai Lv , Lingpeng Kong , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Despite recent advances in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs), these models still suffer from generating hallucinatory responses that do not align with the visual input provided. To mitigate such hallucinations, we introduce Efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Laura Fieback , Nishilkumar Balar , Jakob Spiegelberg , Hanno Gottschalk

Recent advancements in open-domain text generation, driven by the power of large pre-trained language models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, assessing these models' generation quality remains a challenge. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sidi Lu , Hongyi Liu , Asli Celikyilmaz , Tianlu Wang , Nanyun Peng

While large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in generating plausible responses correlated with input visual contents, they still suffer from hallucinations, where the generated text inaccurately reflects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yi-Lun Lee , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable abilities in visual context understanding and coherent response generation. However, alongside these advancements, the issue of hallucinations has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Junho Kim , Hyunjun Kim , Yeonju Kim , Yong Man Ro

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive perception and reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from hallucinations -- generating outputs that are linguistically coherent but inconsistent with the context of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingkui Tong , Jiaer Xia , Kaiyang Zhou

The autoregressive decoding for text generation in large language models (LLMs), while widely used, is inherently suboptimal due to the lack of a built-in mechanism to perform refinement and/or correction of the generated content. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zeyu Tang , Zhenhao Chen , Xiangchen Song , Loka Li , Yunlong Deng , Yifan Shen , Guangyi Chen , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, generating high-quality text that balances coherence, diversity, and relevance remains challenging. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jaydip Sen , Rohit Pandey , Hetvi Waghela

The recent demand for customized image generation raises a need for techniques that effectively extract the common concept from small sets of images. Existing methods typically rely on additional guidance, such as text prompts or spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Minseo Kim , Minchan Kwon , Dongyeun Lee , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection, a task that discriminates MGT from Human-Written Text (HWT), plays a crucial role in preventing misuse of text generative models, which excel in mimicking human writing style recently. Latest proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xiaoming Liu , Zhaohan Zhang , Yichen Wang , Hang Pu , Yu Lan , Chao Shen

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Contrastive divergence (CD) learning is a classical method for fitting unnormalized statistical models to data samples. Despite its wide-spread use, the convergence properties of this algorithm are still not well understood. The main source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Omer Yair , Tomer Michaeli