English
Related papers

Related papers: ALOHa: A New Measure for Hallucination in Captioni…

200 papers

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

While recent years have seen rapid progress in image-conditioned text generation, image captioning still suffers from the fundamental issue of hallucinations, namely, the generation of spurious details that cannot be inferred from the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Assaf Ben-Kish , Moran Yanuka , Morris Alper , Raja Giryes , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Despite their impressive performance on multi-modal tasks, large vision-language models (LVLMs) tend to suffer from hallucinations. An important type is object hallucination, where LVLMs generate objects that are inconsistent with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shounak Datta , Dhanasekar Sundararaman

With the advent of rich visual representations and pre-trained language models, video captioning has seen continuous improvement over time. Despite the performance improvement, video captioning models are prone to hallucination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Nasib Ullah , Partha Pratim Mohanta

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks, yet they are susceptible to generating inaccurate or unreliable responses, a phenomenon known as hallucination. In critical domains such as health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Sumera Anjum , Hanzhi Zhang , Wenjun Zhou , Eun Jin Paek , Xiaopeng Zhao , Yunhe Feng

Recent progress in generative AI, including large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, has opened up significant opportunities in fields ranging from natural language processing to knowledge discovery and data mining. However, there is also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Navapat Nananukul , Mayank Kejriwal

Hallucination, i.e., generating factually incorrect content, remains a critical challenge for large language models (LLMs). We introduce TOHA, a TOpology-based HAllucination detector in the RAG setting, which leverages a topological…

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in understanding visual information with human languages. However, LVLMs still suffer from object hallucination, which is the problem of generating descriptions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiyang Zhou , Chenhang Cui , Jaehong Yoon , Linjun Zhang , Zhun Deng , Chelsea Finn , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) emerge as a unified interface to address a multitude of tasks, ranging from NLP to computer vision. Despite showcasing state-of-the-art results in many benchmarks, a long-standing issue is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alberto Compagnoni , Davide Caffagni , Nicholas Moratelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Vision Language models (VLMs) often hallucinate non-existent objects. Detecting hallucination is analogous to detecting deception: a single final statement is insufficient, one must examine the underlying reasoning process. Yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Abin Shoby , Ta Duc Huy , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Minh Khoi Ho , Qi Chen , Anton van den Hengel , Phi Le Nguyen , Johan W. Verjans , Vu Minh Hieu Phan

Explaining an image with missing or non-existent objects is known as object bias (hallucination) in image captioning. This behaviour is quite common in the state-of-the-art captioning models which is not desirable by humans. To decrease the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) severely compromises their reliability in real-world applications, posing a critical barrier to their deployment in high-stakes scenarios such as autonomous driving and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Han Sun , Qin Li , Peixin Wang , Min Zhang

Despite progress in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs), object hallucination remains a critical issue in image captioning task, where models generate descriptions of non-existent objects, compromising their reliability. Previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shiyu Liu , Xinyi Wen , Zhibin Lan , Ante Wang , Jinsong Su

Hallucination, or the generation of incorrect or fabricated information, remains a critical challenge in large language models (LLMs), particularly in high-stake domains such as legal question answering (QA). In order to mitigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yinghao Hu , Leilei Gan , Wenyi Xiao , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often suffer from hallucinations, particularly errors in object existence, attributes, or relations, which undermine their reliability. We introduce TACO (Verified Atomic Confidence Estimation), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiarui Liu , Weihao Xuan , Zhijing Jin , Mona Diab

Hallucination, a phenomenon where multimodal large language models~(MLLMs) tend to generate textual responses that are plausible but unaligned with the image, has become one major hurdle in various MLLM-related applications. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Han Qiu , Jiaxing Huang , Peng Gao , Qin Qi , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse multimodal tasks but remain vulnerable to hallucinations rooted in inherent language bias. Despite recent progress, existing hallucination mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yilin Yang , Zhenghui Guo , Yuke Wang , Omprakash Gnawali , Sheng Di , Chengming Zhang

Multimodal language models possess a remarkable ability to handle an open-vocabulary's worth of objects. Yet the best models still suffer from hallucinations when reasoning about scenes in the real world, revealing a gap between their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Candace Ross , Florian Bordes , Adina Williams , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim

Despite the outstanding performance in multimodal tasks, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been plagued by the issue of hallucination, i.e., generating content that is inconsistent with the corresponding visual inputs. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bei Yan , Jie Zhang , Zheng Yuan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›