Revisit What You See: Revealing Visual Semantics in Vision Tokens to Guide LVLM Decoding

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Autori principali: Cho, Beomsik, Kim, Jaehyung
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author Cho, Beomsik
Kim, Jaehyung
author_facet Cho, Beomsik
Kim, Jaehyung
contents Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across multimodal tasks by integrating visual perception with language understanding. However, how vision information contributes to the model's decoding process remains under-explored, as reflected in frequent hallucinations. Through a series of analyses, we found that (i) vision tokens provide meaningful visual information even when hallucinations occur, and (ii) their semantics are encoded in the textual space and become explicit under appropriate vocabulary constraints. Building on these observations, we propose ReVisiT, a simple training-free decoding method that guides text generation in LVLMs by Referencing Vision Tokens. Our approach leverages the semantic information embedded within vision tokens by projecting them into the text token distribution. Specifically, ReVisiT dynamically selects the most relevant vision token at each decoding step via context-aware constrained divergence minimization. Then, ReVisiT uses its constrained projection to refine the output distribution to better incorporate visual semantics. Across five benchmarks on recent LVLMs, ReVisiT achieves competitive or superior results to state-of-the-art decoding baselines while reducing computational cost by up to $2\times$
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spellingShingle Revisit What You See: Revealing Visual Semantics in Vision Tokens to Guide LVLM Decoding
Cho, Beomsik
Kim, Jaehyung
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across multimodal tasks by integrating visual perception with language understanding. However, how vision information contributes to the model's decoding process remains under-explored, as reflected in frequent hallucinations. Through a series of analyses, we found that (i) vision tokens provide meaningful visual information even when hallucinations occur, and (ii) their semantics are encoded in the textual space and become explicit under appropriate vocabulary constraints. Building on these observations, we propose ReVisiT, a simple training-free decoding method that guides text generation in LVLMs by Referencing Vision Tokens. Our approach leverages the semantic information embedded within vision tokens by projecting them into the text token distribution. Specifically, ReVisiT dynamically selects the most relevant vision token at each decoding step via context-aware constrained divergence minimization. Then, ReVisiT uses its constrained projection to refine the output distribution to better incorporate visual semantics. Across five benchmarks on recent LVLMs, ReVisiT achieves competitive or superior results to state-of-the-art decoding baselines while reducing computational cost by up to $2\times$
title Revisit What You See: Revealing Visual Semantics in Vision Tokens to Guide LVLM Decoding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09522