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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from hallucination issues, generating information about objects that are not present in input images during vision-language tasks. These hallucinations particularly undermine model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Dokyoon Yoon , Youngsook Song , Woomyong Park

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they have largely overlooked the importance of visual processing. In a simple yet revealing experiment, we interestingly find that language-only models, when provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuting Li , Lai Wei , Kaipeng Zheng , Jingyuan Huang , Guilin Li , Bo Wang , Linghe Kong , Lichao Sun , Weiran Huang

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced multi-modal tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and reasoning. However, they often generate hallucinated outputs inconsistent with the visual context or prompt, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shawn Li , Jiashu Qu , Yuxiao Zhou , Yuehan Qin , Tiankai Yang , Yue Zhao

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have obtained impressive performance in visual content understanding and multi-modal reasoning. Unfortunately, these large models suffer from serious hallucination problems and tend to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wei Suo , Lijun Zhang , Mengyang Sun , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

The generation of factually incorrect objects, commonly known as object hallucination, remains a persistent challenge in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Current approaches to address this issue - ranging from expensive data-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuanzhi Xu , Qian Gao , Jun Fan , Guohui Ding , Zhenyu Yang , Sixue Lin , Yuteng Xiao

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of vision-language tasks involving image-conditioned free-form text generation. However, growing concerns about hallucinations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhuohang Li , Chao Yan , Nicholas J. Jackson , Wendi Cui , Bo Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Bradley A. Malin

Despite Video Large Language Models having rapidly advanced in recent years, perceptual hallucinations pose a substantial safety risk, which severely restricts their real-world applicability. While several methods for hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yiming Sun , Mi Zhang , Feifei Li , Geng Hong , Min Yang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance in visual-language understanding for downstream multimodal tasks. While their capabilities are improving, problems emerge simultaneously. Among those problems, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jingyuan Deng , Yujiu Yang

Multimodal Large Reasoning Models (MLRMs) have achieved remarkable strides in visual reasoning through test time compute scaling, yet long chain reasoning remains prone to hallucinations. We identify a concerning phenomenon termed the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhe Qian , Yanbiao Ma , Zhuohan Ouyang , Zhonghua Wang , Zhongxing Xu , Fei Luo , Xinyu Liu , Zongyuan Ge , Yike Guo , Jungong Han

The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) has enhanced the performance of various downstream tasks in visual-language understanding. Most existing approaches encode images and videos into separate feature spaces, which are then fed as inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bin Lin , Yang Ye , Bin Zhu , Jiaxi Cui , Munan Ning , Peng Jin , Li Yuan

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly rely on retrieval to answer knowledge-intensive multimodal questions. Existing benchmarks overlook conflicts between visual and textual evidence and the importance of generating deflections…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nicholas Moratelli , Christopher Davis , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Bill Byrne , Gonzalo Iglesias

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) strive to achieve a profound, human-like understanding of and interaction with the physical world, but often exhibit a shallow and incoherent integration when acquiring information (Perception) and…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can reason effectively over both textual and visual inputs, but they tend to hallucinate syntactically coherent yet visually ungrounded contents. In this paper, we investigate the internal dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhuowei Li , Haizhou Shi , Yunhe Gao , Di Liu , Zhenting Wang , Yuxiao Chen , Ting Liu , Long Zhao , Hao Wang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across various visual tasks, yet they remain hindered by the persistent challenge of hallucinations. To address this critical issue, we propose Mixture of Decoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xinlong Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Qiang Liu , Junfei Wu , Fuzheng Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hallucinate, resulting in an emerging topic of visual hallucination evaluation (VHE). This paper contributes a ChatGPT-Prompted visual hallucination evaluation Dataset (PhD) for objective VHE at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiazhen Liu , Yuhan Fu , Ruobing Xie , Runquan Xie , Xingwu Sun , Fengzong Lian , Zhanhui Kang , Xirong Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on complex multimodal tasks. However, they continue to suffer from significant hallucination issues, including object, attribute, and relational hallucinations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yudong Zhang , Ruobing Xie , Xingwu Sun , Yiqing Huang , Jiansheng Chen , Zhanhui Kang , Di Wang , Yu Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive advances, yet object hallucination remains a persistent challenge. Existing methods, based on the flawed assumption that omission and fabrication hallucinations share a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Guangzong Si , Hao Yin , Xianfei Li , Qing Ding , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across diverse multimodal tasks, yet they continue to suffer from hallucinations, generating content that is inconsistent with the visual input. Prior work DHCP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Wei Ding , Yilin Li , Yudong Zhang , Ruobing Xie , Xingwu Sun , Jiansheng Chen , Yu Wang

Object hallucination is a critical issue in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), where outputs include objects that do not appear in the input image. A natural question arises from this phenomenon: Which component of the LVLM pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lingfeng Ren , Weihao Yu , Runpeng Yu , Xinchao Wang