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The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced various AI applications in commercial and scientific research fields, such as scientific literature summarization, writing assistance, and knowledge graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Huiwen Wu , Xiaohan Li , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Deyi Zhang , Zhe Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. However, their tendency to produce factually inconsistent outputs, commonly referred to as ''hallucinations'', remains a critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dingwei Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Feiteng Fang , Chak Tou Leong , Shiwen Ni , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Min Yang , Chengming Li

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

Multimodal large language models achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but remain prone to hallucinations, where outputs are not grounded in visual inputs. This issue can be attributed to two main biases: text-visual bias, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Wang , Maying Shen , Nadine Chang , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li , Jose M. Alvarez

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread adoption in various natural language processing tasks, including question answering and dialogue systems. However, a major drawback of LLMs is the issue of hallucination, where they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuyan Chen , Qiang Fu , Yichen Yuan , Zhihao Wen , Ge Fan , Dayiheng Liu , Dongmei Zhang , Zhixu Li , Yanghua Xiao

Multimodal Large Language Models frequently suffer from inference hallucinations, partially stemming from language priors dominating visual evidence. Existing training-free mitigation methods either perturb the visual representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sihang Jia , Shuliang Liu , Songbo Yang , Yibo Yan , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities across various tasks, but their deployment is constrained by high computational and memory costs. Model pruning provides an effective means to alleviate these demands.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Zhuo Chen , Xingrun Xing , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently exhibit hallucination phenomena, but the underlying reasons remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis and find that, although MLLMs incorrectly generate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chenxi Wang , Xiang Chen , Ningyu Zhang , Bozhong Tian , Haoming Xu , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have succeeded in a variety of natural language processing tasks [Zha+25]. However, they have notable limitations. LLMs tend to generate hallucinations, a seemingly plausible yet factually unsupported output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Martin Preiß

Reducing hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for improving the accuracy of data extraction from large text corpora. Current methods, like prompt engineering and chain-of-thought prompting, focus on individual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Daniel Xie , Maxwell J. Jacobson , Adil Wazeer , Haiyan Wang , Xinghang Zhang , Yexiang Xue

Large Vision-Language Models have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet they remain susceptible to object hallucinations when language priors dominate insufficient or misaligned visual evidence. Training-free contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoyi Huang , Kejia Zhang , Zhiming Luo

Given a language model (LM), maximum probability is a poor decoding objective for open-ended generation, because it produces short and repetitive text. On the other hand, sampling can often produce incoherent text that drifts from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xiang Lisa Li , Ari Holtzman , Daniel Fried , Percy Liang , Jason Eisner , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Luke Zettlemoyer , Mike Lewis

Pruning is a widely used technique to reduce the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), but it often causes performance degradation. To mitigate this, existing restoration methods typically employ parameter-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Tianjiao Li , Jia Jim Deryl Chua , Lee Onn Mak , Gee Wah Ng , Kezhi Mao

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and reasoning, but suffer from hallucination: the generation of factually incorrect content. While numerous methods have been developed to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohor Banerjee , Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya , Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff , Min Sen Tan , Zachary Choy Kit Chun , Alvin Chan Guo Wei

Contemporary Language Models (LMs), while impressively fluent, often generate content that is factually incorrect or unfaithful to the input context - a critical issue commonly referred to as 'hallucination'. This tendency of LMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Anwoy Chatterjee , Yash Goel , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Large multimodal models are increasingly used as the reasoning core of embodied agents operating in 3D environments, yet they remain prone to hallucinations that can produce unsafe and ungrounded decisions. Existing inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Makanjuola Ogunleye , Eman Abdelrahman , Ismini Lourentzou

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to object hallucinations, an issue in which their generated text contains non-existent objects, greatly limiting their reliability and practicality. Current approaches often rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ailin Deng , Zhirui Chen , Bryan Hooi

This work suggests fundamentally rethinking the current practice of pruning large language models (LLMs). The way it is done is by divide and conquer: split the model into submodels, sequentially prune them, and reconstruct predictions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Sungbin Shin , Wonpyo Park , Jaeho Lee , Namhoon Lee

Graph contrastive learning has achieved great success in pre-training graph neural networks without ground-truth labels. Leading graph contrastive learning follows the classical scheme of contrastive learning, forcing model to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Junran Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Shangzhe Li

Dense retrieval (DR) has shown promising results in information retrieval. In essence, DR requires high-quality text representations to support effective search in the representation space. Recent studies have shown that pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinyu Ma , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng