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Reducing and detecting hallucinations in large language models is an open research problem. In this project, we attempt to leverage recent advances in the field of uncertainty estimation to reduce hallucinations in frozen large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shreyas Verma , Kien Tran , Yusuf Ali , Guangyu Min

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 language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet they are prone to generating factually incorrect outputs - commonly known as "hallucinations." Among existing mitigation strategies, uncertainty-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Samir Abdaljalil , Hasan Kurban , Parichit Sharma , Erchin Serpedin , Rachad Atat

Medical Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated potential in healthcare applications, yet their propensity for hallucinations -- generating medically implausible or inaccurate information -- presents substantial risks to patient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kaiwen Zuo , Yirui Jiang

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent, concerns about their reliability, particularly due to hallucinations - factually inaccurate or irrelevant outputs - have grown. Our research investigates the relationship…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Shahrad Mohammadzadeh , Juan David Guerra , Marco Bonizzato , Reihaneh Rabbany , Golnoosh Farnadi

Recent advancements in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have revolutionized how machines understand and generate textual responses based on visual inputs, yet they often produce "hallucinatory" outputs that misinterpret visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sangmin Woo , Jaehyuk Jang , Donguk Kim , Yubin Choi , Changick Kim

Training learnable metrics using modern language models has recently emerged as a promising method for the automatic evaluation of machine translation. However, existing human evaluation datasets for text simplification have limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mounica Maddela , Yao Dou , David Heineman , Wei Xu

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

Distinctive Image Captioning (DIC) -- generating distinctive captions that describe the unique details of a target image -- has received considerable attention over the last few years. A recent DIC method proposes to generate distinctive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yangjun Mao , Jun Xiao , Dong Zhang , Meng Cao , Jian Shao , Yueting Zhuang , Long Chen

Although large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, they are prone to hallucinations in multi-image tasks. We attribute this issue to limitations in existing attention mechanisms and insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaochen Yang , Hao Fang , Jiawei Kong , Yaoxin Mao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Dense retrieval calls for discriminative embeddings to represent the semantic relationship between query and document. It may benefit from the using of large language models (LLMs), given LLMs' strong capability on semantic understanding.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zheng Liu , Chaofan Li , Shitao Xiao , Yingxia Shao , Defu Lian

Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly impedes their real-world applicability. As the primary component for accurately interpreting visual information, the choice of visual encoder is pivotal. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weihang Wang , Xinhao Li , Ziyue Wang , Yan Pang , Jielei Zhang , Peiyi Li , Qiang Zhang , Longwen Gao

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

This article surveys Evaluation models to automatically detect hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and presents a comprehensive benchmark of their performance across six RAG applications. Methods included in our study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ashish Sardana

Given the accelerating progress of vision and language modeling, accurate evaluation of machine-generated image captions remains critical. In order to evaluate captions more closely to human preferences, metrics need to discriminate between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Koki Maeda , Shuhei Kurita , Taiki Miyanishi , Naoaki Okazaki

With the rapid development of large vision language models (LVLMs), these models have shown excellent results in various multimodal tasks. Since LVLMs are prone to hallucinations and there are currently few datasets and evaluation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Haodong Li , Haicheng Qu , Xiaofeng Zhang

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

Purpose: This study focuses on the development of automated text generation from radiology images, termed diagnostic captioning, to assist medical professionals in reducing clinical errors and improving productivity. The aim is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Quan Van Nguyen , Huy Quang Pham , Dan Quang Tran , Thang Kien-Bao Nguyen , Nhat-Hao Nguyen-Dang , Bao-Thien Nguyen-Tat

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

We focus on the automatic evaluation of image captions in both reference-based and reference-free settings. Existing metrics based on large language models (LLMs) favor their own generations; therefore, the neutrality is in question. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shinnosuke Hirano , Yuiga Wada , Kazuki Matsuda , Seitaro Otsuki , Komei Sugiura