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Large pre-trained language models have demonstrated their proficiency in storing factual knowledge within their parameters and achieving remarkable results when fine-tuned for downstream natural language processing tasks. Nonetheless, their…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show promise for embodied planning tasks but struggle with complex scenarios involving unfamiliar environments and multi-step goals. Current approaches rely on environment-agnostic imitation learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Junhao Shi , Zhaoye Fei , Siyin Wang , Qipeng Guo , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

Large Vision Language Models exhibit remarkable capabilities but struggle with hallucinations inconsistencies between images and their descriptions. Previous hallucination evaluation studies on LVLMs have identified hallucinations in terms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chaoya Jiang , Hongrui Jia , Wei Ye , Mengfan Dong , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Shikun Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks such as image captioning but remain prone to object hallucinations, where they describe objects that do not appear in the image. To mitigate this, we propose LISA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhihui Guo , Xin Man , Hui Xu , Jie Shao , Zhiguo Jiang , Xianchao Zhang , Heng Tao Shen

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate hallucinations, producing outputs that are contextually inaccurate or factually incorrect. We introduce HICD, a novel method designed to induce hallucinations for contrastive decoding to mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xinyan Jiang , Hang Ye , Yongxin Zhu , Xiaoying Zheng , Zikang Chen , Jun Gong

Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive world knowledge, including geospatial knowledge, which has been successfully applied to various geospatial tasks such as mobility prediction and social indicator prediction. However, LLMs often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shengyuan Wang , Jie Feng , Tianhui Liu , Dan Pei , Yong Li

Large language models are extensively applied across a wide range of tasks, such as customer support, content creation, educational tutoring, and providing financial guidance. However, a well-known drawback is their predisposition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Noa Nonkes , Sergei Agaronian , Evangelos Kanoulas , Roxana Petcu

This research work delves into the manifestation of hallucination within Large Language Models (LLMs) and its consequential impacts on applications within the domain of mental health. The primary objective is to discern effective strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Abdul Muqtadir , Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal , Ayesha Yousaf , Hafiz Farooq Ahmed , Jamil Hussain

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate incorrect or unsupported content, known as hallucinations. Existing detection methods rely on heuristics or simple models over isolated computational traces such as activations, or attention maps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fabrizio Frasca , Guy Bar-Shalom , Yftah Ziser , Haggai Maron

Hallucination poses a challenge to the deployment of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in applications. Unlike in large language models (LLMs), hallucination in LVLMs often arises from misalignments between visual inputs and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sheng Liu , Haotian Ye , Lei Xing , James Zou

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 Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in multi-modal reasoning, but their inference time efficiency remains a significant challenge due to the memory overhead during decoding, especially when the query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Fatih Ilhan , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Selim Furkan Tekin , Tiansheng Huang , Zachary Yahn , Yichang Xu , Ling Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently achieved remarkable success. However, LVLMs are still plagued by the hallucination problem, which limits the practicality in many scenarios. Hallucination refers to the information of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Junyang Wang , Yiyang Zhou , Guohai Xu , Pengcheng Shi , Chenlin Zhao , Haiyang Xu , Qinghao Ye , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jihua Zhu , Jitao Sang , Haoyu Tang

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity for their impressive performance across diverse fields. However, LLMs are prone to hallucinate untruthful or nonsensical outputs that fail to meet user expectations in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Tianhang Zhang , Lin Qiu , Qipeng Guo , Cheng Deng , Yue Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Chenghu Zhou , Xinbing Wang , Luoyi Fu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly rely on retrieval to answer knowledge-intensive multimodal questions. Existing benchmarks overlook conflicts between visual and textual evidence and the importance of generating deflections…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nicholas Moratelli , Christopher Davis , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Bill Byrne , Gonzalo Iglesias

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, yet remain susceptible to hallucinations. While prior works have proposed confidence representation methods for hallucination detection, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Elyes Hajji , Aymen Bouguerra , Fabio Arnez

Hallucinations in Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs) pose significant risks, yet existing detection methods typically rely on gold-standard outputs that are costly or impractical to obtain. Moreover, hallucination detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jonas Waldendorf , Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan , Evgenii Tsymbalov

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) hallucinate, generating factually incorrect yet confident assertions. We argue this stems from the Transformer's Softmax function, which creates "Artificial Certainty" by collapsing ambiguous attention scores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Shihao Ji , Zihui Song , Jiajie Huang