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Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations -- factually incorrect outputs -- leading to a large body of work on detecting and mitigating such cases. We argue that it is important to distinguish between two types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Adi Simhi , Jonathan Herzig , Idan Szpektor , Yonatan Belinkov

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jinghan He , Kuan Zhu , Haiyun Guo , Junfeng Fang , Zhenglin Hua , Yuheng Jia , Ming Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jinqiao Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) often hallucinate, producing unfaithful or factually incorrect outputs by misrepresenting the provided context or incorrectly recalling internal knowledge. Recent studies have identified specific attention heads…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Aryo Pradipta Gema , Chen Jin , Ahmed Abdulaal , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Beatrice Alex , Pasquale Minervini , Amrutha Saseendran

Visual hallucination (VH) means that a multi-modal LLM (MLLM) imagines incorrect details about an image in visual question answering. Existing studies find VH instances only in existing image datasets, which results in biased understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wen Huang , Hongbin Liu , Minxin Guo , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Despite significant advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the performance of existing VLMs remains hindered by object hallucination, a critical challenge to achieving accurate visual understanding. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Woohyeon Park , Woojin Kim , Jaeik Kim , Jaeyoung Do

Occlusion perception, a critical foundation for human-level spatial understanding, embodies the challenge of integrating visual recognition and reasoning. Though multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhaochen Liu , Kaiwen Gao , Shuyi Liang , Bin Xiao , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma , Tingting Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for text generation, translation, and summarization, but they often suffer from hallucinations-instances where they fail to maintain the fidelity and coherence of contextual information during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jiemin Wu , Songning Lai , Ruiqiang Xiao , Tianlang Xue , Jiayu Yang , Yutao Yue

Hallucination remains a fundamental challenge in vision-language models (VLMs), where autoregressive generation may produce linguistically plausible yet physically inconsistent or visually ungrounded responses due to likelihood maximization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qinwu Xu

As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in clinical decision support, more than accuracy is required: knowing when to trust their predictions is equally critical. Yet, a comprehensive and systematic investigation into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ji Young Byun , Young-Jin Park , Jean-Philippe Corbeil , Asma Ben Abacha

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), defined as the generation of content inconsistent with facts or context, represent a core obstacle to their reliable deployment in critical domains. Current research primarily focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yanyi Liu , Qingwen Yang , Tiezheng Guo , Feiyu Qu , Jun Liu , Yingyou Wen

Recent advances in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have expanded their capabilities to video understanding, with Text-to-Video (T2V) models excelling in generating videos from textual prompts. However, they still frequently produce…

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.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zilu Tang , Rajen Chatterjee , Sarthak Garg

Despite rapid advances, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) still suffer from hallucinations, i.e., generating content inconsistent with input or established world knowledge, which correspond to faithfulness and factuality hallucinations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Bei Yan , Zhiyuan Chen , Yuecong Min , Jie Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Xiaozhen Wang , Shiguang Shan

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) predicts perceptual quality scores consistent with human judgments. Recent RL-based IQA methods built on MLLMs focus on generating visual quality descriptions and scores, ignoring two key reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wulin Xie , Rui Dai , Ruidong Ding , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xinwen Hou , Jie Wen

Hallucinations are outputs by Large Language Models (LLMs) that are factually incorrect yet appear plausible [1]. This paper investigates how such hallucinations influence users' trust in LLMs and users' interaction with LLMs. To explore…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Adrian Ryser , Florian Allwein , Tim Schlippe

Faithfulness hallucinations in VQA occur when vision-language models produce fluent yet visually ungrounded answers, severely undermining their reliability in safety-critical applications. Existing detection methods mainly fall into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaodong Tong , Qi Zhang , Chen Li , Lei Jiang , Yanbing Liu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) remain vulnerable to hallucination, often generating content misaligned with visual inputs. Although recent training-based approaches aim to mitigate hallucination, they typically rely on predefined or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shujun Liu , Siyuan Wang , Zejun Li , Jianxiang Wang , Cheng Zeng , Zhongyu Wei

%Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown substantial advances in multimodal understanding and generation. However, when presented with incompetent or adversarial inputs, they frequently produce unreliable or even harmful content,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tao Huang , Rui Wang , Xiaofei Liu , Yi Qin , Li Duan , Liping Jing

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) integrate image encoders with Large Language Models (LLMs) to process multi-modal inputs and perform complex visual tasks. However, they often generate hallucinations by describing non-existent objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yaqi Sun , Kyohei Atarashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Vision language models (VLM) demonstrate sophisticated multimodal reasoning yet are prone to hallucination when confronted with knowledge conflicts, impeding their deployment in information-sensitive contexts. While existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peter Carragher , Nikitha Rao , Abhinand Jha , R Raghav , Kathleen M. Carley