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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive perception and reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from hallucinations -- generating outputs that are linguistically coherent but inconsistent with the context of the…

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Mitigating object hallucination in large vision-language models (LVLMs) is critical to their safe deployment. Existing methods either are restricted to specific decoding methods, or demand sophisticated modifications to visual inputs, or…

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced the integration of visual and linguistic modalities, establishing themselves as the dominant paradigm for visual-language tasks. Current approaches like chain of thought (CoT) reasoning…

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Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of vision-language tasks involving image-conditioned free-form text generation. However, growing concerns about hallucinations in…

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Hallucination, where models generate fluent text unsupported by visual evidence, remains a major flaw in vision-language models and is particularly critical in sign language translation (SLT). In SLT, meaning depends on precise grounding in…

Despite their success, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remain vulnerable to hallucinations. While existing studies attribute the cause of hallucinations to insufficient visual attention to image tokens, our findings indicate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Beitao Chen , Xinyu Lyu , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) systems have demonstrated impressive vision-language reasoning capabilities but suffer from pervasive and severe hallucination issues, posing significant risks in critical domains such as healthcare and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhehan Kan , Ce Zhang , Zihan Liao , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Junyuan Xiao , Xu Li , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Qingmin Liao

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

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently dramatically pushed the state of the art in image captioning and many image understanding tasks (e.g., visual question answering). LVLMs, however, often \textit{hallucinate} and produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš

In recent years, large-scale language models (LLMs) have gained attention for their impressive text generation capabilities. However, these models often face the challenge of "hallucination," which undermines their reliability. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuchen Yang , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang

Existing large language models (LLMs) are known for generating "hallucinated" content, namely a fabricated text of plausibly looking, yet unfounded, facts. To identify when these hallucination scenarios occur, we examine the properties of…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have facilitated structured data generation, with applications in domains like tabular data, document databases, product catalogs, etc. However, concerns persist about generation veracity due to incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chengwei Wei , Kee Kiat Koo , Amir Tavanaei , Karim Bouyarmane

Hallucination has been a significant impediment to the development and application of current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). To mitigate hallucinations, one intuitive and effective way is to directly increase attention weights to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Li'an Zhong , Ziqiang He , Jibin Zheng , Jin Li , Z. Jane Wang , Xiangui Kang

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…

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Radiology Report Generation (RRG) aims to produce accurate and coherent diagnostics from medical images. Although large vision language models (LVLM) improve report fluency and accuracy, they exhibit hallucinations, generating plausible yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ruixiao Yang , Yuanhe Tian , Xu Yang , Huiqi Li , Yan Song

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted as the cognitive core of embodied agents. However, inherited hallucinations, which stem from failures to ground user instructions in the observed physical environment, can lead to…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of verbose reasoning and the hallucination risks of efficient, ungrounded approaches. To resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yanxiang Huang , Guohua Gao , Zhaoyang Wei , Jianyuan Ni

Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often hallucinate by generating responses based on language priors rather than visual evidence, posing risks in clinical applications. We propose Visual Grounding Score Guided Decoding (VGS-Decoding), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Govinda Kolli , Adinath Madhavrao Dukre , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Imran Razzak

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly by aligning visual patches with the text embedding space, but a fixed visual-token budget forces images to be resized to a uniform pretraining resolution, often erasing fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zipeng Zhu , Zhanghao Hu , Qinglin Zhu , Yuxi Hong , Yijun Liu , Jingyong Su , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant utility in various tasks, such as answering questions through retrieval-augmented generation. Context can be retrieved using a vectorized…

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