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Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on spatial reasoning benchmarks, yet these evaluations mask critical weaknesses in understanding object interactions. Current benchmarks test high level relationships ('left…

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Visual hallucination (VH) means that a multi-modal LLM (MLLM) imagines incorrect details about an image in visual question answering. Existing studies find VH instances only in existing image datasets, which results in biased understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wen Huang , Hongbin Liu , Minxin Guo , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success but continue to struggle with object hallucination (OH), generating outputs inconsistent with visual inputs. While previous work has proposed methods to reduce OH, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Boxu Chen , Ziwei Zheng , Le Yang , Zeyu Geng , Zhengyu Zhao , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen

Despite the significant success of Large Vision-Language models(LVLMs), these models still suffer hallucinations when describing images, generating answers that include non-existent objects. It is reported that these models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Li , Dehong Gao , Yeyuan Wang , Linbo Jin , Shanqing Yu , Xiaoyan Cai , Libin Yang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are an extension of Large Language Models (LLMs) that facilitate processing both image and text inputs, expanding AI capabilities. However, LVLMs struggle with object hallucinations due to their reliance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Avshalom Manevich , Reut Tsarfaty

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding and generation tasks. However, these models occasionally generate hallucinatory texts, resulting in descriptions that seem reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiaqi Fan , Jianhua Wu , Hongqing Chu , Quanbo Ge , Bingzhao Gao

Despite recent advances in multimodal pre-training for visual description, state-of-the-art models still produce captions containing errors, such as hallucinating objects not present in a scene. The existing prominent metric for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Suzanne Petryk , David M. Chan , Anish Kachinthaya , Haodi Zou , John Canny , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results across various cross-modal tasks. However, hallucinations, i.e., the models generating counterfactual responses, remain a challenge. Though recent studies have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yuanchen Wu , Lu Zhang , Hang Yao , Junlong Du , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Yunsheng Wu , Xiaoqiang Li

Object level hallucination remains a central reliability challenge for vision language models (VLMs), particularly in binary object existence verification. Existing benchmarks emphasize aggregate accuracy but rarely disentangle whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 JiYang Wang , Jiawei Chen , Mengqi Xiao , Yu Cheng , Yangfu Li , Zhaoxia Yin

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are powerful, yet they remain unreliable due to object hallucinations. In this work, we show that in many hallucinatory predictions the LVLM effectively ignores the image and instead relies on previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Nhat Hoang-Xuan , Minh Vu , My T. Thai , Manish Bhattarai

We investigate the internal representations of vision-language models (VLMs) to address hallucinations, a persistent challenge despite advances in model size and training. We project VLMs' internal image representations to their language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Nick Jiang , Anish Kachinthaya , Suzie Petryk , Yossi Gandelsman

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made remarkable developments along with the recent surge of large language models. Despite their advancements, LVLMs have a tendency to generate plausible yet inaccurate or inconsistent information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Dexter Neo , Tsuhan Chen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced considerably, intertwining visual recognition and language understanding to generate content that is not only coherent but also contextually attuned. Despite their success, LVLMs still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Sicong Leng , Hang Zhang , Guanzheng Chen , Xin Li , Shijian Lu , Chunyan Miao , Lidong Bing

Hallucinations of vision-language models (VLMs), which are misalignments between visual content and generated text, undermine the reliability of VLMs. One common approach for detecting them employs the same VLM, or a different one, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ofir Azachi , Kfir Eliyahu , Eyal El Ani , Rom Himelstein , Roi Reichart , Yuval Pinter , Nitay Calderon

Despite continuously improving performance, contemporary image captioning models are prone to "hallucinating" objects that are not actually in a scene. One problem is that standard metrics only measure similarity to ground truth captions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Anna Rohrbach , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Kaylee Burns , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Object hallucination critically undermines the reliability of Multimodal Large Language Models, often stemming from a fundamental failure in cognitive introspection, where models blindly trust linguistic priors over specific visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shuliang Liu , Songbo Yang , Dong Fang , Sihang Jia , Yuqi Tang , Lingfeng Su , Ruoshui Peng , Yibo Yan , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu

Hallucinations remain a persistent challenge for vision-language models (VLMs), which often describe nonexistent objects or fabricate facts. Existing detection methods typically operate after text generation, making intervention both costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Akhil Kogilathota , Sripadha Vallabha E G , Luzhe Sun , Jiawei Zhou

The advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has increasingly highlighted the critical issue of their tendency to hallucinate non-existing objects in the images. To address this issue, previous works focused on using specially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Linxi Zhao , Yihe Deng , Weitong Zhang , Quanquan Gu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex multimodal tasks. However, these models still suffer from hallucinations, particularly when required to implicitly recognize or infer diverse visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ashish Seth , Dinesh Manocha , Chirag Agarwal

Vision-language models (VLMs) enable open-ended visual question answering but remain prone to hallucinations. We present HEDGE, a unified framework for hallucination detection that combines controlled visual perturbations, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sushant Gautam , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen