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Large language models (LLMs) still produce plausible-sounding but ungrounded factual claims, a problem that worsens in multi-turn dialogue as context grows and early errors cascade. We introduce $\textbf{HalluHard}$, a challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dongyang Fan , Sebastien Delsad , Nicolas Flammarion , Maksym Andriushchenko

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in visual-language understanding for downstream multi-modal tasks. Despite their success, LVLMs still suffer from generating hallucinations in complex generation tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jiaming Li , Jiacheng Zhang , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success across various domains. However, their use in high-stakes fields like healthcare remains limited due to persistent hallucinations, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu , Shanshan Yu , Satoshi Munakata , Koichi Shirahata

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently played a dominant role in multimodal vision-language learning. Despite the great success, it lacks a holistic evaluation of their efficacy. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Peng Xu , Wenqi Shao , Kaipeng Zhang , Peng Gao , Shuo Liu , Meng Lei , Fanqing Meng , Siyuan Huang , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted as the cognitive core of embodied agents. However, inherited hallucinations, which stem from failures to ground user instructions in the observed physical environment, can lead to…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding.However, hallucination, where the model generates plausible yet incorrect outputs, persists as a significant and under-addressed challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianfeng Cai , Wengang Zhou , Zongmeng Zhang , Jiale Hong , Nianji Zhan , Houqiang Li

Hallucination detection in captions (HalDec) assesses a vision-language model's ability to correctly align image content with text by identifying errors in captions that misrepresent the image. Beyond evaluation, effective hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Kuniaki Saito , Risa Shinoda , Shohei Tanaka , Tosho Hirasawa , Fumio Okura , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Hallucination detection in captions (HalDec) assesses a vision-language model's ability to correctly align image content with text by identifying errors in captions that misrepresent the image. Beyond evaluation, effective hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Kuniaki Saito , Risa Shinoda , Shohei Tanaka , Tosho Hirasawa , Fumio Okura , Yoshitaka Ushiku

We address hallucination detection in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by framing the problem through the lens of dynamical systems stability theory. Rather than treating hallucination as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bozhi Luan , Gen Li , Yalan Qin , Jifeng Guo , Yun Zhou , Faguo Wu , Hongwei Zheng , Wenjun Wu , Zhaoxin Fan

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

The rapid advancement of foundation models (FMs) across language, image, audio, and video domains has shown remarkable capabilities in diverse tasks. However, the proliferation of FMs brings forth a critical challenge: the potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Pranab Sahoo , Prabhash Meharia , Akash Ghosh , Sriparna Saha , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha

Context-grounded hallucinations are cases where model outputs contain information not verifiable against the source text. We study the applicability of LLMs for localizing such hallucinations, as a more practical alternative to existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yehonatan Peisakhovsky , Zorik Gekhman , Yosi Mass , Liat Ein-Dor , Roi Reichart

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance in their ability to write human-like text, a key challenge remains around their tendency to hallucinate generating content that appears factual but is ungrounded. This issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 S. M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy , S M Mehedi Zaman , Vinija Jain , Anku Rani , Vipula Rawte , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das

The surge in applications of large language models (LLMs) has prompted concerns about the generation of misleading or fabricated information, known as hallucinations. Therefore, detecting hallucinations has become critical to maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuefeng Du , Chaowei Xiao , Yixuan Li

The rapidly developing Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown notable capabilities on a range of multi-modal tasks, but still face the hallucination phenomena where the generated texts do not align with the given contexts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wenyi Xiao , Ziwei Huang , Leilei Gan , Wanggui He , Haoyuan Li , Zhelun Yu , Fangxun Shu , Hao Jiang , Linchao Zhu

This paper explores the effectiveness of Multimodal Large Language models (MLLMs) as assistive technologies for visually impaired individuals. We conduct a user survey to identify adoption patterns and key challenges users face with such…

Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from hallucination problems, which hinder their reliability in sensitive applications. In the black-box setting, several self-consistency-based techniques have been proposed for hallucination detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yihao Xue , Kristjan Greenewald , Youssef Mroueh , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show strong capabilities in visual-language reasoning, yet their performance on ultra-high-resolution imagery remains largely unexplored. Existing visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Siqi Li , Xinyu Cai , Jianbiao Mei , Nianchen Deng , Pinlong Cai , Licheng Wen , Yufan Shen , Xuemeng Yang , Botian Shi , Yong Liu

Large Multimodal Models (LMM) are built across modalities and the misalignment between two modalities can result in "hallucination", generating textual outputs that are not grounded by the multimodal information in context. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhiqing Sun , Sheng Shen , Shengcao Cao , Haotian Liu , Chunyuan Li , Yikang Shen , Chuang Gan , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang , Yiming Yang , Kurt Keutzer , Trevor Darrell

Hallucination poses a persistent challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing benchmarks for evaluating hallucinations are generally static, which may overlook the potential risk of data contamination. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yahan Tu , Rui Hu , Jitao Sang