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In this paper, we introduce \emph{refined Direct Preference Optimization} (rDPO), a method for improving the behavioral alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for human-annotated data. The method involves creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Víctor Gallego

Large language models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate on abstractive summarization tasks such as document-based question-answering, meeting summarization, and clinical report generation, even though all necessary information is included in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Erik Jones , Hamid Palangi , Clarisse Simões , Varun Chandrasekaran , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Arindam Mitra , Ahmed Awadallah , Ece Kamar

Despite recent advances in Large Video Language Models (LVLMs), they still struggle with fine-grained temporal understanding, hallucinate, and often make simple mistakes on even simple video question-answering tasks, all of which pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) hold significant promise for medical applications, yet their deployment is often constrained by insufficient alignment and reliability. While Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a potent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dain Kim , Jiwoo Lee , Jaehoon Yun , Yong Hoe Koo , Qingyu Chen , Hyunjae Kim , Jaewoo Kang

Vision language models (VLMs) are expected to perform effective multimodal reasoning and make logically coherent decisions, which is critical to tasks such as diagram understanding and spatial problem solving. However, current VLM reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yichen Feng , Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Yuetai Li , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Luyao Niu , Bill Yuchen Lin , Radha Poovendran

Recent studies in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) train RL agents to execute natural-language navigation instructions in photorealistic environments, as a step towards robots that can follow human instructions. However, given the…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on various visual question answering and reasoning tasks leveraging instruction fine-tuning specific datasets. They can also learn from preference data annotated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yongxin Wang , Meng Cao , Haokun Lin , Mingfei Han , Liang Ma , Jin Jiang , Yuhao Cheng , Xiaodan Liang

Alignment algorithms are widely used to align large language models (LLMs) to human users based on preference annotations. Typically these (often divergent) preferences are aggregated over a diverse set of users, resulting in fine-tuned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Cristina Garbacea , Chenhao Tan

Fine-tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is a common strategy to improve performance following an ad-hoc data collection and annotation of real-world scenes. However, this process is often prone to biases, errors, and distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Massimo Rizzoli , Simone Alghisi , Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Giuseppe Riccardi

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for mitigating hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Although existing methods have achieved significant progress by utilizing vision-oriented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Jiaxi Li , Yinwei Wei , Na Zheng , Jianhua Yin , Liqiang Nie

Vision-language alignment in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) relies on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learning (RL). To align multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) in the post-training stage, supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xin Jin , Siyuan Li , Siyong Jian , Kai Yu , Huan Wang

Recent studies have shown that Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) tend to neglect image content and over-rely on language-model priors, resulting in errors in visually grounded tasks and hallucinations. We hypothesize that this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shengguang Wu , Fan-Yun Sun , Kaiyue Wen , Nick Haber

Ensuring alignment with human preferences is a crucial characteristic of large language models (LLMs). Presently, the primary alignment methods, RLHF and DPO, require extensive human annotation, which is expensive despite their efficacy.…

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Current multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from ``hallucination'', occasionally generating responses that are not grounded in the input images. To tackle this challenge, one promising path is to utilize reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mengxi Zhang , Wenhao Wu , Yu Lu , Yuxin Song , Kang Rong , Huanjin Yao , Jianbo Zhao , Fanglong Liu , Yifan Sun , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang

The advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has propelled their application in the medical field. However, Medical LVLMs (Med-LVLMs) encounter factuality challenges due to modality misalignment, where the models prioritize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kangyu Zhu , Peng Xia , Yun Li , Hongtu Zhu , Sheng Wang , Huaxiu Yao

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically follow a two-stage training paradigm-pretraining and supervised fine-tuning. Recently, preference optimization, derived from the language domain, has emerged as an effective post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yufei Zhan , Yousong Zhu , Shurong Zheng , Hongyin Zhao , Fan Yang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across multiple tasks. However, their trustworthiness is often challenged by hallucinations, which can be attributed to the modality misalignment and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiulong Wu , Zhengliang Shi , Shuaiqiang Wang , Jizhou Huang , Dawei Yin , Lingyong Yan , Min Cao , Min Zhang

Traditional alignment methods for Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) primarily rely on human-curated preference data. Human-generated preference data is costly; machine-generated preference data is limited in quality; and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jefferson Hernandez , Jing Shi , Simon Jenni , Vicente Ordonez , Kushal Kafle

Large Multimodal Models (LMM) are built across modalities and the misalignment between two modalities can result in "hallucination", generating textual outputs that are not grounded by the multimodal information in context. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhiqing Sun , Sheng Shen , Shengcao Cao , Haotian Liu , Chunyuan Li , Yikang Shen , Chuang Gan , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang , Yiming Yang , Kurt Keutzer , Trevor Darrell

The creation of high-quality human-labeled image-caption datasets presents a significant bottleneck in the development of Visual-Language Models (VLMs). In this work, we investigate an approach that leverages the strengths of Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sahand Sharifzadeh , Christos Kaplanis , Shreya Pathak , Dharshan Kumaran , Anastasija Ilic , Jovana Mitrovic , Charles Blundell , Andrea Banino