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Is automated hallucination detection possible? In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework to analyze the feasibility of automatically detecting hallucinations produced by large language models (LLMs). Inspired by the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Amin Karbasi , Omar Montasser , John Sous , Grigoris Velegkas

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse natural language processing tasks, yet they remain susceptible to hallucinations -- generating content that is factually incorrect, unfaithful to provided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ahmed Cherif

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance in visual question answering. However, they often suffer from hallucinations. In this work, hallucinations are categorized into two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Feilong Tang , Chengzhi Liu , Zhongxing Xu , Ming Hu , Zelin Peng , Zhiwei Yang , Jionglong Su , Minquan Lin , Yifan Peng , Xuelian Cheng , Imran Razzak , Zongyuan Ge

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLMs) leverages Large Language Models as a cognitive framework for diverse visual-language tasks. Recent efforts have been made to equip MLLMs with visual perceiving and grounding capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwen He , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Jun-Yan He , Jin-Peng Lan , Bin Luo , Xuansong Xie

Despite significant strides in multimodal tasks, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are plagued by the critical issue of hallucination. The reliable detection of such hallucinations in MLLMs has, therefore, become a vital aspect of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiang Chen , Chenxi Wang , Yida Xue , Ningyu Zhang , Xiaoyan Yang , Qiang Li , Yue Shen , Lei Liang , Jinjie Gu , Huajun Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) now rival human performance on many multimodal tasks, yet they still hallucinate objects or generate unsafe text. Current hallucination detectors, e.g., single-token linear probing (LP) and PTrue, typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Geigh Zollicoffer , Minh Vu , Manish Bhattarai

Despite their remarkable potential, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) still face challenges with object hallucination, a problem where their generated outputs mistakenly incorporate objects that do not actually exist. Although most works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liwei Che , Tony Qingze Liu , Jing Jia , Weiyi Qin , Ruixiang Tang , Vladimir Pavlovic

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel at captioning, visual question answering, and robotics by combining vision and language, yet they often miss obvious objects or hallucinate nonexistent ones in atypical scenes. We examine these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhaoyang Li , Zhan Ling , Yuchen Zhou , Litian Gong , Erdem Bıyık , Hao Su

Multimodal hallucination in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) restricts the correctness of MLLMs. However, multimodal hallucinations are multi-sourced and arise from diverse causes. Existing benchmarks fail to adequately distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bowen Dong , Minheng Ni , Zitong Huang , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Large-scale vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models are prone to hallucinate non-existent visual objects when generating text based on visual information. In this paper, we systematically study the object hallucination problem from three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Wenliang Dai , Zihan Liu , Ziwei Ji , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) bridge the gap between visual and linguistic modalities, demonstrating strong potential across a variety of domains. However, despite significant progress, LVLMs still suffer from severe hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruiqi Ma , Yu Yan , Chunhong Zhang , Minghao Yin , XinChao Liu , Zhihong Jin , Zheng Hu

Recognizing whether outputs from large language models (LLMs) contain faithfulness hallucination is crucial for real-world applications, e.g., retrieval-augmented generation and summarization. In this paper, we introduce FaithLens, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shuzheng Si , Qingyi Wang , Haozhe Zhao , Yuzhuo Bai , Guanqiao Chen , Kangyang Luo , Gang Chen , Fanchao Qi , Minjia Zhang , Baobao Chang , Maosong Sun

Despite growing interest in hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models, existing studies primarily focus on single-image settings, leaving hallucination in multi-image scenarios largely unexplored. To address this gap, we conduct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiale Li , Mingrui Wu , Zixiang Jin , Hao Chen , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly integral to healthcare applications, including medical visual question answering and imaging report generation. While these models inherit the robust capabilities of foundational Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiawei Chen , Dingkang Yang , Tong Wu , Yue Jiang , Xiaolu Hou , Mingcheng Li , Shunli Wang , Dongling Xiao , Ke Li , Lihua Zhang

Large language models(LLMs) excel at text generation and knowledge question-answering tasks, but they are prone to generating hallucinated content, severely limiting their application in high-risk domains. Current hallucination detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Shize Liang , Hongzhi Wang

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability of large vision-language models, making their detection essential for ensuring accuracy in critical applications. Current detection methods often rely on computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Eunkyu Park , Minyeong Kim , Gunhee Kim

Instruction tuning represents a prevalent strategy employed by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to align with human instructions and adapt to new tasks. Nevertheless, MLLMs encounter the challenge of adapting to users' evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Cheng Chen , Junchen Zhu , Xu Luo , Hengtao Shen , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

The rapidly developing Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown notable capabilities on a range of multi-modal tasks, but still face the hallucination phenomena where the generated texts do not align with the given contexts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wenyi Xiao , Ziwei Huang , Leilei Gan , Wanggui He , Haoyuan Li , Zhelun Yu , Fangxun Shu , Hao Jiang , Linchao Zhu

Multimodal supervision has achieved promising results in many visual language understanding tasks, where the language plays an essential role as a hint or context for recognizing and locating instances. However, due to the defects of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Weixin Feng , Xingyuan Bu , Chenchen Zhang , Xubin Li

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as a key approach in achieving artificial general intelligence. In particular, vision-language MLLMs have been developed to generate not only text but also visual outputs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Donghwan Chi , Hyomin Kim , Yoonjin Oh , Yongjin Kim , Donghoon Lee , Daejin Jo , Jongmin Kim , Junyeob Baek , Sungjin Ahn , Sungwoong Kim