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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

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual-language tasks. However, the authenticity of the responses generated by MLLMs is often compromised by object hallucinations. We identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shuo Li , Jiajun Sun , Guodong Zheng , Xiaoran Fan , Yujiong Shen , Yi Lu , Zhiheng Xi , Yuming Yang , Wenming Tan , Tao Ji , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

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

Object hallucination critically undermines the reliability of Multimodal Large Language Models, often stemming from a fundamental failure in cognitive introspection, where models blindly trust linguistic priors over specific visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shuliang Liu , Songbo Yang , Dong Fang , Sihang Jia , Yuqi Tang , Lingfeng Su , Ruoshui Peng , Yibo Yan , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu

Hallucinations in large vision-language models (LVLMs) are a significant challenge, i.e., generating objects that are not presented in the visual input, which impairs their reliability. Recent studies often attribute hallucinations to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuying Shang , Xinyi Zeng , Yutao Zhu , Xiao Yang , Zhengwei Fang , Jingyuan Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Zinan Liu , Yu Tian

Hallucinations in vision-language models (VLMs) hinder reliability and real-world applicability, usually stemming from distribution shifts between pretraining data and test samples. Existing solutions, such as retraining or fine-tuning on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fei Zhao , Chengcui Zhang , Runlin Zhang , Tianyang Wang , Xi Li

Although large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, they are prone to hallucinations in multi-image tasks. We attribute this issue to limitations in existing attention mechanisms and insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaochen Yang , Hao Fang , Jiawei Kong , Yaoxin Mao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

The Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) enhances user interaction and enriches user experience by integrating visual modality on the basis of the Large Language Models (LLMs). It has demonstrated their powerful information processing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Wei Lan , Wenyi Chen , Qingfeng Chen , Shirui Pan , Huiyu Zhou , Yi Pan

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

Hallucinations and off-target translation remain unsolved problems in MT, especially for low-resource languages and massively multilingual models. In this paper, we introduce two related methods to mitigate these failure cases with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Rico Sennrich , Jannis Vamvas , Alireza Mohammadshahi

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in the video comprehension field. Despite remarkable content reasoning and instruction following capabilities they demonstrated, the hallucination problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiacheng Zhang , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Na Zhao , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Xingjun Ma , Jingjing Chen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to hallucinations, where generated responses seem semantically plausible yet exhibit little or no relevance to the input image. Previous studies reveal that this issue primarily stems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hao Fang , Changle Zhou , Jiawei Kong , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual understanding and multimodal reasoning. However, LVLMs frequently exhibit hallucination phenomena, manifesting as the generated textual responses that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyun Dai , Xiaoqiang Li , Shaohua Zhang , Yuanchen Wu , Jide Li

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in integrating visual and linguistic contexts to produce detailed content, facilitating applications such as image captioning. However, using LVLMs to generate descriptions often faces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Mingqian Feng , Yunlong Tang , Zeliang Zhang , Chenliang Xu

Recently, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal context comprehension. However, they still suffer from hallucination problems referring to generating inconsistent outputs with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Xiaoye Qu , Jiashuo Sun , Wei Wei , Yu Cheng

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from object hallucinations, yet the visual perceptual mechanism underlying this failure remains poorly understood. In this work, we reveal that hallucinations are strongly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Quanjiang Li , Zhiming Liu , Wei Luo , Tingjin Luo , Chenping Hou

As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) gain widespread applicability, it is becoming increasingly desirable to adapt them for diverse user needs. In this paper, we study the adaptation of MLLMs through controlled decoding. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Oscar Mañas , Pierluca D'Oro , Koustuv Sinha , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Spatial relation hallucinations pose a persistent challenge in large vision-language models (LVLMs), leading to generate incorrect predictions about object positions and spatial configurations within an image. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiarui Wu , Zhuo Liu , Hangfeng He

Despite the impressive capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in vision-language tasks, they are prone to hallucinations in real-world scenarios. This paper investigates the hallucination phenomenon in MLLMs from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zongmeng Zhang , Wengang Zhou , Jie Zhao , Houqiang Li

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