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Today's advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), like adaptive cruise control or rear collision warning, are finding broader adoption across vehicle classes. Integrating such advanced, multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) on board a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Malsha Ashani Mahawatta Dona , Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Yinan Yu , Christian Berger

Despite their success, large language models (LLMs) face the critical challenge of hallucinations, generating plausible but incorrect content. While much research has focused on hallucinations in multiple modalities including images and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nan Jiang , Qi Li , Lin Tan , Tianyi Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhuowei Li , Haizhou Shi , Yunhe Gao , Di Liu , Zhenting Wang , Yuxiao Chen , Ting Liu , Long Zhao , Hao Wang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

A frequently observed problem with LLMs is their tendency to generate output that is nonsensical, illogical, or factually incorrect, often referred to broadly as hallucination. Building on the recently proposed HalluciGen task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Evangelia Gogoulou , Shorouq Zahra , Liane Guillou , Luise Dürlich , Joakim Nivre

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements, capitalizing on the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) across diverse tasks. Despite this, a critical challenge known as hallucination occurs when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Chao Wang , Weiwei Fu , Yang Zhou

Multimodal Diffusion Large Language Models (MDLLMs) achieve high-concurrency generation through parallel masked decoding, yet the architectures remain prone to multimodal hallucinations. This structural vulnerability stems from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Vishal Narnaware , Animesh Gupta , Kevin Zhai , Zhenyi Wang , Mubarak Shah

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly augmented with continuous or latent non-textual tokens intended to support "visual thinking." Despite improved task accuracy, this alone does not show that models actually use these tokens for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tianyi Zhang , Mahtab Bigverdi , Ranjay Krishna

Despite the promising progress in multi-modal tasks, current large multi-modal models (LMMs) are prone to hallucinating inconsistent descriptions with respect to the associated image and human instructions. This paper addresses this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fuxiao Liu , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Yaser Yacoob , Lijuan Wang

Like a body at rest that stays at rest, we find that visual attention in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibits pronounced inertia, remaining largely static once settled during early decoding steps and failing to support the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Boyang Gong , Yu Zheng , Fanye Kong , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Hallucination has been a major problem for large language models and remains a critical challenge when it comes to multimodality in which vision-language models (VLMs) have to deal with not just textual but also visual inputs. Despite rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhecan Wang , Garrett Bingham , Adams Yu , Quoc Le , Thang Luong , Golnaz Ghiasi

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have substantially enhanced their ability across multimodal video understanding benchmarks spanning temporal, action, object, and spatial understanding. However, we identify a critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Cui Yakun , Xingqun Qi , TianTian Geng , Yuyao Zhang , Sirui Han , Yike Guo

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success across various domains. However, their use in high-stakes fields like healthcare remains limited due to persistent hallucinations, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu , Shanshan Yu , Satoshi Munakata , Koichi Shirahata

Vision-language models (VLMs) have great potential for medical image understanding, particularly in Visual Report Generation (VRG) and Visual Question Answering (VQA), but they may generate hallucinated responses that contradict visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zehui Liao , Shishuai Hu , Ke Zou , Mengyuan Jin , Yanning Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Liangli Zhen , Yong Xia

The Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) enhances user interaction and enriches user experience by integrating visual modality on the basis of the Large Language Models (LLMs). It has demonstrated their powerful information processing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Wei Lan , Wenyi Chen , Qingfeng Chen , Shirui Pan , Huiyu Zhou , Yi Pan

This review examines the means with which faithfulness has been evaluated across open-ended summarization, question-answering and machine translation tasks. We find that the use of LLMs as a faithfulness evaluator is commonly the metric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ben Malin , Tatiana Kalganova , Nikoloas Boulgouris

Detecting hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation remains a challenge. Prior approaches attribute hallucinations to a binary conflict between internal knowledge stored in FFNs and the retrieved context. However, this perspective is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pengqian Lu , Jie Lu , Anjin Liu , Guangquan Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated effectiveness across a wide variety of tasks involving natural language, however, a fundamental problem of hallucinations still plagues these models, limiting their trustworthiness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jerry Li , Evangelos Papalexakis

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, their practical deployment is severely hindered by hallucination issues, which become particularly acute during Reinforcement Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Miao Pan , Wangjie Gan , Jintao Chen , Wenqi Zhang , Bing Sun , Jianwei Yin , Xuhong Zhang

The excessive use of visual tokens in existing Multimoal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often exhibits obvious redundancy and brings in prohibitively expensive computation. To gain insights into this problem, we first conduct extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Qiong Wu , Wenhao Lin , Yiyi Zhou , Weihao Ye , Zhanpeng Zen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is transforming scientific discovery, enabling rapid knowledge generation and hypothesis formulation. However, a critical challenge is hallucination, where LLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bhanu Prakash Vangala , Sajid Mahmud , Pawan Neupane , Joel Selvaraj , Jianlin Cheng