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Hauptverfasser: Lin, Zheng, Niu, Zhenxing, Wang, Zhibin, Xu, Yinghui
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Lin, Zheng
Niu, Zhenxing
Wang, Zhibin
Xu, Yinghui
author_facet Lin, Zheng
Niu, Zhenxing
Wang, Zhibin
Xu, Yinghui
contents MLLMs often generate outputs that are inconsistent with the visual content, a challenge known as hallucination. Previous methods focus on determining whether a generated output is hallucinated, without identifying which image region leads to the hallucination or interpreting why such hallucinations occur. In this paper, we argue that hallucination in MLLMs is partially due to a lack of slow-thinking and divergent-thinking in these models. To address this, we propose adopting a self-reflection scheme to promote slow-thinking. Furthermore, we consider eliminating hallucination as a complex reasoning task and propose a multi-agent debate approach to encourage divergent-thinking. Consequently, our approach can not only mitigate hallucinations but also interpret why they occur and detail the specifics of hallucination. In addition, we propose to distinguish creativity from hallucination in the context of MLLMs, and illustrate how to evaluate MLLMs' creativity capability. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate that our approach exhibits generalized hallucinations-mitigating performance across several MLLMs.
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spellingShingle Interpreting and Mitigating Hallucination in MLLMs through Multi-agent Debate
Lin, Zheng
Niu, Zhenxing
Wang, Zhibin
Xu, Yinghui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
MLLMs often generate outputs that are inconsistent with the visual content, a challenge known as hallucination. Previous methods focus on determining whether a generated output is hallucinated, without identifying which image region leads to the hallucination or interpreting why such hallucinations occur. In this paper, we argue that hallucination in MLLMs is partially due to a lack of slow-thinking and divergent-thinking in these models. To address this, we propose adopting a self-reflection scheme to promote slow-thinking. Furthermore, we consider eliminating hallucination as a complex reasoning task and propose a multi-agent debate approach to encourage divergent-thinking. Consequently, our approach can not only mitigate hallucinations but also interpret why they occur and detail the specifics of hallucination. In addition, we propose to distinguish creativity from hallucination in the context of MLLMs, and illustrate how to evaluate MLLMs' creativity capability. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate that our approach exhibits generalized hallucinations-mitigating performance across several MLLMs.
title Interpreting and Mitigating Hallucination in MLLMs through Multi-agent Debate
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20505