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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

Recent advancements in Audio-Video Large Language Models (AV-LLMs) have enhanced their capabilities in tasks like audio-visual question answering and multimodal dialog systems. Video and audio introduce an extended temporal dimension,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhonghua Jiang , Kui Chen , Kunxi Li , Keting Yin , Yiyun Zhou , Zhaode Wang , Chengfei Lv , Shengyu Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) may produce outputs that are unfaithful to reality, also known as visual hallucinations (VH), which significantly impedes their real-world usage. To alleviate VH, various decoding strategies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xianwei Zhuang , Zhihong Zhu , Yuxin Xie , Liming Liang , Yuexian Zou

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

The advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven significant progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), evolving from Single to Multi Image VQA (MVQA). However, the increased number of images in MVQA inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kang Zeng , Guojin Zhong , Jintao Cheng , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li

We propose to solve the natural language inference problem without any supervision from the inference labels via task-agnostic multimodal pretraining. Although recent studies of multimodal self-supervised learning also represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wanyun Cui , Guangyu Zheng , Wei Wang

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

Despite the significant progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, hallucination -- corresponding to the generation of visually inconsistent objects, attributes, or relations -- remains a major obstacle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Siyu Jiang , Feiyang Chen , Xiaojin Zhang , Kun He

Hallucination has been a long-standing and inevitable problem that hinders the application of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) in domains that require high reliability. Various methods focus on improvement depending on data annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chao Wang , Jianming Yang , Yang Zhou

Hallucinations and off-target translation remain unsolved problems in MT, especially for low-resource languages and massively multilingual models. In this paper, we introduce two related methods to mitigate these failure cases with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Rico Sennrich , Jannis Vamvas , Alireza Mohammadshahi

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically process visual inputs as a prefix to the language decoder. As the model autoregressively generates text, this initial visual information inevitably undergoes "dilution" leading the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhengtao Zou , Ya Gao , Jiarui Guan , Bin Li , Pekka Marttinen

The underlying correlation between audio and visual modalities can be utilized to learn supervised information for unlabeled videos. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end self-supervised framework named Audio-Visual Contrastive Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yang Liu , Ying Tan , Haoyuan Lan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) deliver detailed responses on vision-language tasks, yet remain susceptible to object hallucination (introducing objects not present in the image), undermining reliability in practice. Prior efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Shiwei Tan , Hengyi Wang , Weiyi Qin , Qi Xu , Zhigang Hua , Hao Wang

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) often suffer from visual hallucination, where the generated responses contain inaccuracies that are not grounded in the visual input. Efforts to address this issue without model finetuning primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

Vision-language representation learning largely benefits from image-text alignment through contrastive losses (e.g., InfoNCE loss). The success of this alignment strategy is attributed to its capability in maximizing the mutual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jinyu Yang , Jiali Duan , Son Tran , Yi Xu , Sampath Chanda , Liqun Chen , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi , Junzhou Huang

Contrastive Decoding (CD) has emerged as an effective inference-time strategy for enhancing open-ended text generation by exploiting the divergence in output probabilities between a large expert language model and a smaller amateur model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jaydip Sen , Subhasis Dasgupta , Hetvi Waghela

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding.However, hallucination, where the model generates plausible yet incorrect outputs, persists as a significant and under-addressed challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianfeng Cai , Wengang Zhou , Zongmeng Zhang , Jiale Hong , Nianji Zhan , Houqiang Li

Despite recent successes, LVLMs or Large Vision Language Models are prone to hallucinating details like objects and their properties or relations, limiting their real-world deployment. To address this and improve their robustness, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Generative Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are prone to generate plausible-sounding textual answers that, however, are not always grounded in the input image. We investigate this phenomenon, usually referred to as "hallucination" and show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Alessandro Favero , Luca Zancato , Matthew Trager , Siddharth Choudhary , Pramuditha Perera , Alessandro Achille , Ashwin Swaminathan , Stefano Soatto

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities, yet hallucinations remain a persistent challenge. This work presents a systematic analysis of the internal evolution of visual perception and token generation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Guangtao Lyu , Xinyi Cheng , Chenghao Xu , Qi Liu , Muli Yang , Fen Fang , Huilin Chen , Jiexi Yan , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng