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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) hold significant promise for medical applications, yet their deployment is often constrained by insufficient alignment and reliability. While Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a potent…

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This paper explores preference distillation for large vision language models (LVLMs), improving their ability to generate helpful and faithful responses anchoring the visual context. We first build a vision-language feedback (VLFeedback)…

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Hallucination, posed as a pervasive challenge of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), has significantly impeded their real-world usage that demands precise judgment. Existing methods mitigate this issue with either training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Bin Wang , Conghui He , Jiaqi Wang , Dahua Lin , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal comprehension and reasoning capabilities, but they still suffer from severe object hallucination. Previous studies primarily attribute the flaw to linguistic prior…

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Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven to be an effective solution for mitigating hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by learning from preference pairs. One of its key challenges lies in how to transfer the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Huatian Zhang , Zhendong Mao , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) frequently generate hallucinated content plausible but incorrect claims about image content. We propose a training-free self-correction framework enabling VLMs to iteratively refine responses through…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are increasingly deployed in industry applications, yet their reliability remains hampered by challenges in detecting hallucinations. While supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Julia Belikova , Konstantin Polev , Rauf Parchiev , Dmitry Simakov

Current multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from ``hallucination'', occasionally generating responses that are not grounded in the input images. To tackle this challenge, one promising path is to utilize reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mengxi Zhang , Wenhao Wu , Yu Lu , Yuxin Song , Kang Rong , Huanjin Yao , Jianbo Zhao , Fanglong Liu , Yifan Sun , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang

Preference alignment has emerged as an effective strategy to enhance the performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) following supervised fine-tuning. While existing preference alignment methods predominantly target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zitian Wang , Yue Liao , Kang Rong , Fengyun Rao , Yibo Yang , Si Liu

The hallucination of large multimodal models (LMMs), providing responses that appear correct but are actually incorrect, limits their reliability and applicability. This paper aims to study the hallucination problem of LMMs in video…

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Hallucination occurs when large language models exhibit behavior that deviates from the boundaries of their knowledge during response generation. To address this critical issue, previous learning-based methods attempt to finetune models but…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) still struggle with hallucinations despite their impressive capabilities. Recent studies have attempted to mitigate this by applying Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to multimodal scenarios using…

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Inspired by the superior language abilities of large language models (LLM), large vision-language models (LVLM) have been recently explored by integrating powerful LLMs for improving the performance on complex multimodal tasks. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yifan Li , Yifan Du , Kun Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Despite achieving outstanding performance on various cross-modal tasks, current large vision-language models (LVLMs) still suffer from hallucination issues, manifesting as inconsistencies between their generated responses and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Rui Hu , Yahan Tu , Shuyu Wei , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

Large language models (LLMs) with their strong zero-shot topic extraction capabilities offer an alternative to probabilistic topic modelling and closed-set topic classification approaches. As zero-shot topic extractors, LLMs are expected to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yida Mu , Peizhen Bai , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

Vision Language Models (VLMs) show impressive capabilities in integrating and reasoning with both visual and language data. But these models make mistakes. A common finding -- similar to LLMs -- is their tendency to hallucinate, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sotirios Panagiotis Chytas , Miso Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim , Vikas Singh

Hallucination remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is a key alignment framework, existing approaches often rely heavily on costly external evaluators for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuanshuai Li , Yuping Yan , Jirui Han , Fei Ming , Lingjuan Lv , Yaochu Jin

As scaling up training data has significantly improved the general multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they still suffer from the hallucination issue, generating text that is inconsistent with the visual input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Li , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Lei Fang , Ji-Rong Wen

Due to the unidirectional masking mechanism, Decoder-Only models propagate information from left to right. LVLMs (Large Vision-Language Models) follow the same architecture, with visual information gradually integrated into semantic…

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