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We propose a lightweight and single-pass uncertainty quantification method for detecting hallucinations in Large Language Models. The method uses attention matrices to estimate uncertainty without requiring repeated sampling or external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Gijs van Dijk

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) is a milestone in generative artificial intelligence, achieving significant success in text comprehension and generation tasks. Despite the tremendous success of LLMs in many downstream tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 He Li , Haoang Chi , Mingyu Liu , Wenjing Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant strides in static image understanding but continue to face critical hurdles in spatiotemporal reasoning. A major bottleneck is "multi-image reasoning hallucination", where a massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoda Yang , Shuai Yang , Can Wang , Jingyang Xue , Menglan Tang , Checheng Yu , Xunzhe Zhou , Sashuai Zhou , Tao Jin , Lixin Yang , Xiangyu Yue , Zhou Zhao

Multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) often suffer from hallucinations that stem not only from insufficient visual grounding but also from imbalanced allocation between perception and reasoning processes. Building upon recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haolang Lu , Bolun Chu , WeiYe Fu , Guoshun Nan , Junning Liu , Minghui Pan , Qiankun Li , Yi Yu , Hua Wang , Kun Wang

We study object hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and improve visual contrastive decoding (VCD) by constructing an object-aligned auxiliary view. We leverage object-centric attention in self-supervised Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Boqi Chen , Xudong Liu , Jianing Qiu

The hallucination problem in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains a common issue. Although image tokens occupy a majority of the input sequence of MLLMs, there is limited research to explore the relationship between image tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yihao Quan , Chaochen Gu , Chen Shen , Xiaosong Yuan , Shaotian Yan , Hao Cheng , Kaijie Wu , Jieping Ye

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show strong performance in Visual Question Answering (VQA) but remain limited in fine-grained reasoning due to low-resolution inputs and noisy attention aggregation. We propose \textbf{Head Aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Junfei Xie , Peng Pan , Xulong Zhang

Hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs) are a significant challenge, i.e., generating objects that are not presented in the visual input, which impairs their reliability. Recent studies often attribute hallucinations to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuying Shang , Xinyi Zeng , Yutao Zhu , Xiao Yang , Zhengwei Fang , Jingyuan Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Zinan Liu , Yu Tian

Nowadays, the research on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has been significantly promoted thanks to the success of Large Language Models (LLM). Nevertheless, these Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are suffering from the drawback of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Hongyu Hu , Jiyuan Zhang , Minyi Zhao , Zhenbang Sun

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

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

Hallucination remains a major challenge for the safe and trustworthy deployment of large language models (LLMs) in factual content generation. Prior work has explored confidence estimation as an effective approach to hallucination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Caiqi Zhang , Xiaochen Zhu , Chengzu Li , Nigel Collier , Andreas Vlachos

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) bridge the gap between visual and linguistic modalities, demonstrating strong potential across a variety of domains. However, despite significant progress, LVLMs still suffer from severe hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruiqi Ma , Yu Yan , Chunhong Zhang , Minghao Yin , XinChao Liu , Zhihong Jin , Zheng Hu

Large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, which sparked a widespread effort to detect and prevent them. Recent work attempts to mitigate hallucinations by intervening in the model's generation, typically computing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Adi Simhi , Jonathan Herzig , Idan Szpektor , Yonatan Belinkov

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated significant progress across multiple domains. However, these models still face the inherent challenge of integrating vision and language for collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiabing Yang , Chenhang Cui , Yiyang Zhou , Yixiang Chen , Peng Xia , Ying Wei , Tao Yu , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

Despite their impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remain prone to hallucination. In this study, we propose a comprehensive intervention framework aligned with the transformer's causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiaye Qian , Ge Zheng , Yuchen Zhu , Sibei Yang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as formidable tools, showing their strong capability in handling various open-vocabulary tasks in image recognition, text-driven visual content generation, and visual chatbots, to name a few. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Shuoyuan Wang , Jindong Wang , Guoqing Wang , Bob Zhang , Kaiyang Zhou , Hongxin Wei

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual understanding and multimodal reasoning. However, LVLMs frequently exhibit hallucination phenomena, manifesting as the generated textual responses that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyun Dai , Xiaoqiang Li , Shaohua Zhang , Yuanchen Wu , Jide Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are now central to healthcare applications such as medical visual question answering and imaging report generation. Yet, these models remain vulnerable to hallucination outputs that appear plausible but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zahra Mahdavi , Zahra Khodakaramimaghsoud , Hooman Khaloo , Sina Bakhshandeh Taleshani , Erfan Hashemi , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Omid Nejati Manzari

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) offer transformative potential for high-stakes domains like finance and law, but their tendency to hallucinate, generating factually incorrect or unsupported content, poses a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ahmad Pesaranghader , Erin Li