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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

Machine Translation (MT) is undergoing a paradigm shift, with systems based on fine-tuned large language models (LLM) becoming increasingly competitive with traditional encoder-decoder models trained specifically for translation tasks.…

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Large vision-language models show tremendous potential in understanding visual information through human languages. However, they are prone to suffer from object hallucination, i.e., the generated image descriptions contain objects that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiaqi Bai , Hongcheng Guo , Zhongyuan Peng , Jian Yang , Zhoujun Li , Mohan Li , Zhihong Tian

Object hallucination remains a primary obstacle to the reliable deployment of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Current inference-time mitigation methods mainly assume hallucinations stem from visual neglect, steering models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jingwen Wu , Xijun Zhang , Ge Song

Large language models (LLMs) have become pervasive in our everyday life. Yet, a fundamental obstacle prevents their use in many critical applications: their propensity to generate fluent, human-quality content that is not grounded in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kensuke Mitsuzawa , Damien Garreau

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) emerge as a unified interface to address a multitude of tasks, ranging from NLP to computer vision. Despite showcasing state-of-the-art results in many benchmarks, a long-standing issue is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alberto Compagnoni , Davide Caffagni , Nicholas Moratelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful linguistic engines but remain susceptible to hallucinations: plausible-sounding outputs that are factually incorrect or unsupported. In this work, we present a mathematically grounded framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Moses Kiprono

Large vision language models (LVLMs) often suffer from object hallucination, producing objects not present in the given images. While current benchmarks for object hallucination primarily concentrate on the presence of a single object class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Xuweiyi Chen , Ziqiao Ma , Xuejun Zhang , Sihan Xu , Shengyi Qian , Jianing Yang , David F. Fouhey , Joyce Chai

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, they are prone to generating fluent yet untruthful responses, known as "hallucinations". Hallucinations can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Minda Hu , Bowei He , Yufei Wang , Liangyou Li , Chen Ma , Irwin King

Despite their significant advancements, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often generate factually inaccurate information, referred to as hallucination. In this work, we address object hallucinations in MLLMs, where information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pritam Sarkar , Sayna Ebrahimi , Ali Etemad , Ahmad Beirami , Sercan Ö. Arık , Tomas Pfister

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various visual-language understanding and generation tasks. However, MLLMs occasionally generate content inconsistent with the given images, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Peng Ding , Jingyu Wu , Jun Kuang , Dan Ma , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai , Shi Chen , Jiajun Chen , Shujian Huang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Shi Liu , Kecheng Zheng , Wei Chen

Recent work has demonstrated state-of-the-art results in large language model (LLM) hallucination detection and mitigation through consistency-based approaches which involve aggregating multiple responses sampled from a single LLM for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Demian Till , John Smeaton , Peter Haubrick , Gouse Saheb , Florian Graef , David Berman

This survey presents a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of hallucination in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), also known as Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), which have demonstrated significant advancements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zechen Bai , Pichao Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Zongbo Han , Zheng Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hinder their practical applications. To address this, we propose a Magnifier Prompt (MagPrompt), a simple yet effective method to tackle hallucinations in MLLMs via extremely simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yuhan Fu , Ruobing Xie , Jiazhen Liu , Bangxiang Lan , Xingwu Sun , Zhanhui Kang , Xirong Li

This paper aims to address the challenge of hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) particularly for dense image captioning tasks. To tackle the challenge, we identify the current lack of a metric that finely measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cong Chen , Mingyu Liu , Chenchen Jing , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across multimodal tasks. However, they often produce hallucinations -- text that is inconsistent with visual input, due to the limited ability to verify information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haonan Ge , Yiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yujun Cai

Contrastive decoding strategies are widely used to mitigate object hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). By reducing over-reliance on language priors, these strategies ensure that generated content remains closely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hao Yin , Guangzong Si , Zilei Wang

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful foundational models to solve a variety of tasks, they have also been shown to be prone to hallucinations, i.e., generating responses that sound confident but are actually incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiawei Li , Akshayaa Magesh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Uncertainty estimation is a necessary component when implementing AI in high-risk settings, such as autonomous cars, medicine, or insurances. Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen a surge in popularity in recent years, but they are subject…

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