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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…

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Large vision-language models (LVMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with visual perception capabilities, enabling them to process and interpret visual information. A major challenge compromising their reliability is object hallucination…

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Recent studies have examined attention dynamics in large vision-language models (LVLMs) to detect hallucinations. However, existing approaches remain limited in reliably distinguishing hallucinated from factually grounded outputs, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yuanchao Zhu , Chaochen Gu , Xiaosong Yuan , Qiyan Zhao , Jiawei Cao , Feilong Tang , Sinan Fan , Yaomin Shen , Chen Shen , Hao Tang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) frequently suffer from hallucinations, generating content that is inconsistent with visual inputs. Existing methods typically address this problem through post-hoc filtering, additional training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tripti Shukla , Zsolt Kira

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…

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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…

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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Beomsik Cho , Jaehyung Kim

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable joint processing of text and images. However, incorporating vision data significantly increases the prompt length, resulting in a longer time to first token (TTFT). This bottleneck can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Tharun Adithya Srikrishnan , Deval Shah , Timothy Hein , Ahmed Hasssan , Stephen Youn , Steven K. Reinhardt

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) recently achieve significant breakthroughs in understanding complex visual-textual contexts. However, hallucination issues still limit their real-world applicability. Although previous mitigation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhaoxu Li , Chenqi Kong , Yi Yu , Qiangqiang Wu , Xinghao Jiang , Ngai-Man Cheung , Bihan Wen , Alex Kot , Xudong Jiang

Despite the remarkable multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), discrepancies often occur between visual inputs and textual outputs--a phenomenon we term visual hallucination. This critical reliability gap poses…

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Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) pose significant security and reliability risks in real-world applications. Inspired by the observation that humans are more error-prone when uncertain or hesitant, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhaoxu Li , Chenqi Kong , Peijun Bao , Song Xia , Yi Tu , Yi Yu , Xinghao Jiang , Xudong Jiang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) frequently suffer from Object Hallucination (OH), wherein they generate descriptions containing objects that are not actually present in the input image. This phenomenon is particularly problematic in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yanbin Huang , Yisen Li , Guiyao Tie , Xiaoye Qu , Pan Zhou , Hongfei Wang , Zhaofan Zou , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Despite significant advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the performance of existing VLMs remains hindered by object hallucination, a critical challenge to achieving accurate visual understanding. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Woohyeon Park , Woojin Kim , Jaeik Kim , Jaeyoung Do

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are commonly derived by extending pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual capabilities. In this work, we investigate how MLLMs process visual inputs by analyzing their attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiahui Wang , Zuyan Liu , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinyu Lyu , Beitao Chen , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

Despite achieving rapid developments and with widespread applications, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) confront a serious challenge of being prone to generating hallucinations. An over-reliance on linguistic priors has been identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanyun Zhu , Deyi Ji , Tianrun Chen , Peng Xu , Jieping Ye , Jun Liu

While medical Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in assisting diagnosis, they still frequently generate hallucinated responses that appear linguistically plausible but lack visual evidence. Such hallucinations pose…

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