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Reward engineering is one of the key challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Preference-based RL effectively addresses this issue by learning from human feedback. However, it is both time-consuming and expensive to collect human…

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While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, the prevalent issue known as the `hallucination' problem has emerged as a significant bottleneck, hindering their real-world deployments. Existing methods…

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Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are widely acknowledged to be prone to hallucinations. Existing research addressing this problem has primarily been confined to image inputs, with limited exploration of video-based hallucinations.…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal understanding capabilities, yet they remain prone to object hallucination, where models describe non-existent objects or attribute incorrect factual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ahmed Akl , Abdelwahed Khamis , Ali Cheraghian , Zhe Wang , Sara Khalifa , Kewen Wang

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…

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Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) where generated responses fail to accurately reflect the given image pose a significant challenge to their reliability. To address this, we introduce ConVis, a novel training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yeji Park , Deokyeong Lee , Junsuk Choe , Buru Chang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are prone to hallucinations, where certain contextual cues in an image can trigger the language module to produce overconfident and incorrect reasoning about abnormal or hypothetical objects. While some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiyang Wu , Tianrui Guan , Dianqi Li , Shuaiyi Huang , Xiaoyu Liu , Xijun Wang , Ruiqi Xian , Abhinav Shrivastava , Furong Huang , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber , Tianyi Zhou , Dinesh Manocha

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) rely on effective multimodal alignment between pre-trained vision encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrate visual and textual information. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shweta Mahajan , Hoang Le , Hyojin Park , Farzad Farhadzadeh , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Despite the great success of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they inevitably suffer from hallucination. As we know, both the visual encoder and the Large Language Model (LLM) decoder in LVLMs are Transformer-based, allowing the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xuan Gong , Tianshi Ming , Xinpeng Wang , Zhihua Wei

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at visual understanding but often suffer from visual hallucinations, where they generate descriptions of nonexistent objects, actions, or concepts, posing significant risks in safety-critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tsung-Han Wu , Heekyung Lee , Jiaxin Ge , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce inaccurate or fabricated information, known as "hallucinations," which compromises their reliability. Existing approaches often train an "Evil LLM" to deliberately generate hallucinations on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiani Guo , Xiangke Zeng , Jie Wu , Zuchao Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often hallucinate content that is fluent yet unsupported by the image, limiting their reliability in real-world deployment. We show that a key failure mode arises from route competition: even when visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhe Cheng , Wenyu Chen , Fode Zhang , Dehuan Shen

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance in their ability to write human-like text, a key challenge remains around their tendency to hallucinate generating content that appears factual but is ungrounded. This issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 S. M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy , S M Mehedi Zaman , Vinija Jain , Anku Rani , Vipula Rawte , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das

Video-language models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal understanding but remain prone to hallucinations, especially when reasoning about actions and temporal order. Existing mitigation strategies, such as textual filtering or random video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tobia Poppi , Burak Uzkent , Amanmeet Garg , Lucas Porto , Garin Kessler , Yezhou Yang , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Florian Schiffers

Prompt-based verification is widely used to mitigate hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet when it helps remains poorly understood. We systematically study verification prompting across two representative LVLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuang Huang , Yafeng Zhang , Yu Zilan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in visual understanding tasks, yet they often suffer from object hallucinations--generating descriptions of objects that are inconsistent with or entirely absent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinmiao Hu , Chun Wang , Ruihe An , ChenYu Shao , Xiaojun Ye , Sheng Zhou , Liangcheng Li

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced the integration of visual and linguistic modalities, establishing themselves as the dominant paradigm for visual-language tasks. Current approaches like chain of thought (CoT) reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haojie Zheng , Tianyang Xu , Hanchi Sun , Shu Pu , Ruoxi Chen , Lichao Sun

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reasoning on text and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are highly effective for visual perception, applying those models for visual instruction-based planning remains a widely open problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Mohamed Salim Aissi , Clemence Grislain , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Thome

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) usually generate texts which satisfy context coherence but don't match the visual input. Such a hallucination issue hinders LVLMs' applicability in the real world. The key to solving hallucination in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nanxing Hu , Xiaoyue Duan , Jinchao Zhang , Guoliang Kang

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) has attracted increasing attention recently. With a large amount of image-text pairs, VLP models trained with contrastive loss have achieved impressive performance in various tasks, especially the…

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