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Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful linguistic engines but remain susceptible to hallucinations: plausible-sounding outputs that are factually incorrect or unsupported. In this work, we present a mathematically grounded framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Moses Kiprono

Hallucination has been a long-standing and inevitable problem that hinders the application of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) in domains that require high reliability. Various methods focus on improvement depending on data annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chao Wang , Jianming Yang , Yang Zhou

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate significant progress in multimodal understanding and reasoning, yet object hallucination remains a critical challenge. While existing research focuses on mitigating language priors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuxuan Xia , Siheng Wang , Peng Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly being applied to multi-view image inputs captured from diverse viewpoints. However, despite this growing use, current LVLMs often confuse or mismatch visual information originating from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wooje Park , Insu Lee , Soohyun Kim , Jaeyun Jang , Minyoung Noh , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

Large Vision-Language Models have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet they remain susceptible to object hallucinations when language priors dominate insufficient or misaligned visual evidence. Training-free contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoyi Huang , Kejia Zhang , Zhiming Luo

Existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) primarily align image features of vision encoder with Large Language Models (LLMs) to leverage their superior text generation capabilities. However, the scale disparity between vision encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shi Liu , Kecheng Zheng , Wei Chen

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal tasks like visual question answering or image captioning. However, inconsistencies between the visual information and the generated text, a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Laura Fieback , Jakob Spiegelberg , Hanno Gottschalk

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

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) often suffer from visual hallucination, where the generated responses contain inaccuracies that are not grounded in the visual input. Efforts to address this issue without model finetuning primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce inaccurate or fabricated information, known as "hallucinations," which compromises their reliability. Existing approaches often train an "Evil LLM" to deliberately generate hallucinations on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiani Guo , Xiangke Zeng , Jie Wu , Zuchao Li

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks such as image captioning but remain prone to object hallucinations, where they describe objects that do not appear in the image. To mitigate this, we propose LISA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhihui Guo , Xin Man , Hui Xu , Jie Shao , Zhiguo Jiang , Xianchao Zhang , Heng Tao Shen

Contrastive learning models based on Siamese structure have demonstrated remarkable performance in self-supervised learning. Such a success of contrastive learning relies on two conditions, a sufficient number of positive pairs and adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jing Wu , Jennifer Hobbs , Naira Hovakimyan

This paper aims to address the challenge of hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) particularly for dense image captioning tasks. To tackle the challenge, we identify the current lack of a metric that finely measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cong Chen , Mingyu Liu , Chenchen Jing , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have introduced a new paradigm for understanding and reasoning about image input through textual responses. Although they have achieved remarkable performance across a range of multi-modal tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zifu Wan , Ce Zhang , Silong Yong , Martin Q. Ma , Simon Stepputtis , Louis-Philippe Morency , Deva Ramanan , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown unprecedented capabilities in advancing various vision-language tasks. However, MLLMs face significant challenges with hallucinations, and misleading outputs that do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liangming Pan , William Yang Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Tat-Seng Chua

Although Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tasks like visual question answering and image captioning, they still struggle with hallucinations. Analysis of attention distribution in these models shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoyu Liang , Jiayuan Yu , Lianrui Mu , Jiedong Zhuang , Jiaqi Hu , Yuchen Yang , Jiangnan Ye , Lu Lu , Jian Chen , Haoji Hu

In text-to-image (T2I) generation, a prevalent training technique involves utilizing Vision Language Models (VLMs) for image re-captioning. Even though VLMs are known to exhibit hallucination, generating descriptive content that deviates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Weichen Yu , Ziyan Yang , Shanchuan Lin , Qi Zhao , Jianyi Wang , Liangke Gui , Matt Fredrikson , Lu Jiang

The Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) enhances user interaction and enriches user experience by integrating visual modality on the basis of the Large Language Models (LLMs). It has demonstrated their powerful information processing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Wei Lan , Wenyi Chen , Qingfeng Chen , Shirui Pan , Huiyu Zhou , Yi Pan

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable success across various vision-language tasks. However, they suffer from visual hallucination, where the generated responses diverge from the provided image. Are MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dingchen Yang , Bowen Cao , Guang Chen , Changjun Jiang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) with discrete image tokenizers unify multimodal representations by encoding visual inputs into a finite set of tokens. Despite their effectiveness, we find that these models still hallucinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weixing Wang , Zifeng Ding , Jindong Gu , Rui Cao , Christoph Meinel , Gerard de Melo , Haojin Yang