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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often produce responses that misalign with factual information, a phenomenon known as hallucinations. While hallucinations are well-studied, the exact causes behind them remain underexplored. In this…

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The troubling rise of hallucination presents perhaps the most significant impediment to the advancement of responsible AI. In recent times, considerable research has focused on detecting and mitigating hallucination in Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Anku Rani , Vipula Rawte , Harshad Sharma , Neeraj Anand , Krishnav Rajbangshi , Amit Sheth , Amitava Das

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made significant progress in recent years but are also prone to hallucination issues. They exhibit more hallucinations in longer, free-form responses, often attributed to accumulated uncertainties.…

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Although Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated exceptional abilities in understanding multimodal data, they invariably suffer from hallucinations, leading to a disconnect between the generated text and the corresponding…

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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

Hallucinations in vision-language models (VLMs) hinder reliability and real-world applicability, usually stemming from distribution shifts between pretraining data and test samples. Existing solutions, such as retraining or fine-tuning on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fei Zhao , Chengcui Zhang , Runlin Zhang , Tianyang Wang , Xi Li

Despite the recent breakthroughs achieved by Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) in understanding and responding to complex visual-textual contexts, their inherent hallucination tendencies limit their practical application in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Junzhe Chen , Tianshu Zhang , Shiyu Huang , Yuwei Niu , Linfeng Zhang , Lijie Wen , Xuming Hu

Existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit insufficient visual attention, leading to hallucinations. To alleviate this problem, some previous studies adjust and amplify visual attention. These methods present a limitation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jingyi Wang , Fei Li , Rujie Liu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal reasoning; yet, they remain vulnerable to hallucinations, where outputs are not grounded in visual evidence. In this paper, we investigate a previously overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sifan Li , Hongkai Chen , Yujun Cai , Qingwen Ye , Liyang Chen , Junsong Yuan , Yiwei Wang

Due to the unidirectional masking mechanism, Decoder-Only models propagate information from left to right. LVLMs (Large Vision-Language Models) follow the same architecture, with visual information gradually integrated into semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jianfei Zhao , Feng Zhang , Xin Sun , Chong Feng

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced considerably, intertwining visual recognition and language understanding to generate content that is not only coherent but also contextually attuned. Despite their success, LVLMs still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Sicong Leng , Hang Zhang , Guanzheng Chen , Xin Li , Shijian Lu , Chunyan Miao , Lidong Bing

Despite the advanced capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they frequently suffer from object hallucination. One reason is that visual features and pretrained textual representations often become intertwined in the deeper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jialin Wu , Wei Shi , Han Shen , Peigui Qi , Kunsheng Tang , Zhicong Huang , Binghao Wang , Zhou Yang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made remarkable developments along with the recent surge of large language models. Despite their advancements, LVLMs have a tendency to generate plausible yet inaccurate or inconsistent information…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit outstanding performance on vision-language tasks but struggle with hallucination problems. Through in-depth analysis of LVLM activation patterns, we reveal two key findings: 1) truthfulness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jianghao Yin , Qin Chen , Kedi Chen , Jie Zhou , Xingjiao Wu , Liang He

Inspired by the superior language abilities of large language models (LLM), large vision-language models (LVLM) have been recently explored by integrating powerful LLMs for improving the performance on complex multimodal tasks. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yifan Li , Yifan Du , Kun Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have made substantial progress in integrating large language models (LLMs) with visual inputs, enabling advanced multimodal reasoning. Despite their success, a persistent challenge is hallucination-where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jinghan He , Kuan Zhu , Haiyun Guo , Junfeng Fang , Zhenglin Hua , Yuheng Jia , Ming Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jinqiao Wang

We investigate the internal representations of vision-language models (VLMs) to address hallucinations, a persistent challenge despite advances in model size and training. We project VLMs' internal image representations to their language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Nick Jiang , Anish Kachinthaya , Suzie Petryk , Yossi Gandelsman

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

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks, yet they remain highly susceptible to visual hallucinations (VH), often producing confident but inaccurate descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Lexiang Tang , Xianwei Zhuang , Bang Yang , Zhiyuan Hu , Hongxiang Li , Lu Ma , Jinghan Ru , Yuexian Zou

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across multimodal tasks by integrating visual perception with language understanding. However, how vision information contributes to the model's decoding process remains…

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