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Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) integrate visual and linguistic modalities, exhibiting exceptional performance across various multimodal tasks. Nevertheless, LVLMs remain vulnerable to the issue of object hallucinations. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chao Wang , Xuancheng Zhou , Weiwei Fu , Yang Zhou

Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) have been observed to generate responses that include inaccurate or fabricated information, a phenomenon commonly known as ``hallucination''. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yue Zhang , Leyang Cui , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi

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

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) often hallucinate content that is fluent yet unsupported by the image, limiting their reliability in real-world deployment. We show that a key failure mode arises from route competition: even when visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhe Cheng , Wenyu Chen , Fode Zhang , Dehuan Shen

Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) pose significant security and reliability risks in real-world applications. Inspired by the observation that humans are more error-prone when uncertain or hesitant, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhaoxu Li , Chenqi Kong , Peijun Bao , Song Xia , Yi Tu , Yi Yu , Xinghao Jiang , Xudong Jiang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across various visual tasks, yet they remain hindered by the persistent challenge of hallucinations. To address this critical issue, we propose Mixture of Decoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xinlong Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Qiang Liu , Junfei Wu , Fuzheng Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Although Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tasks like visual question answering and image captioning, they still struggle with hallucinations. Analysis of attention distribution in these models shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoyu Liang , Jiayuan Yu , Lianrui Mu , Jiedong Zhuang , Jiaqi Hu , Yuchen Yang , Jiangnan Ye , Lu Lu , Jian Chen , Haoji Hu

Recent decoding methods improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs) by refining how the next token is selected during generation. These methods typically operate at the token level, leveraging internal representations to suppress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hongxiang Zhang , Hao Chen , Muhao Chen , Tianyi Zhang

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

Video language models (Video-LLMs) are prone to hallucinations, often generating plausible but ungrounded content when visual evidence is weak, ambiguous, or biased. Existing decoding methods, such as contrastive decoding (CD), rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qixin Xiao

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance, but still suffer from hallucinations caused by unstable visual grounding and over-reliance on language priors. Existing training-free decoding methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xinyun Liu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly being applied to multi-view image inputs captured from diverse viewpoints. However, despite this growing use, current LVLMs often confuse or mismatch visual information originating from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wooje Park , Insu Lee , Soohyun Kim , Jaeyun Jang , Minyoung Noh , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable abilities in visual context understanding and coherent response generation. However, alongside these advancements, the issue of hallucinations has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Junho Kim , Hyunjun Kim , Yeonju Kim , Yong Man Ro

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve impressive performance on multimodal tasks but often suffer from hallucination, and confidently describe objects or attributes not present in the image. Current training-free interventions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Mehrdad Fazli , Bowen Wei , Ahmet Sari , Ziwei Zhu

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 (MLLMs) suffer from cross-modal hallucinations, where one modality inappropriately influences generation about another, leading to fabricated output. This exposes a more fundamental deficiency in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sangyun Chung , Se Yeon Kim , Youngchae Chee , Yong Man Ro

Hallucination remains a major challenge in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To address this, various contrastive decoding (CD) methods have been proposed that contrasts original logits with hallucinated logits generated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have become a key interface for visual reasoning and grounded question answering, yet they remain vulnerable to visual hallucinations, where generated responses contradict image content or mention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fanpu Cao , Xin Zou , Xuming Hu , Hui Xiong

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) integrate image encoders with Large Language Models (LLMs) to process multi-modal inputs and perform complex visual tasks. However, they often generate hallucinations by describing non-existent objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yaqi Sun , Kyohei Atarashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima