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Autori principali: Tang, Lexiang, Zhuang, Xianwei, Yang, Bang, Hu, Zhiyuan, Li, Hongxiang, Ma, Lu, Ru, Jinghan, Zou, Yuexian
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12609
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author Tang, Lexiang
Zhuang, Xianwei
Yang, Bang
Hu, Zhiyuan
Li, Hongxiang
Ma, Lu
Ru, Jinghan
Zou, Yuexian
author_facet Tang, Lexiang
Zhuang, Xianwei
Yang, Bang
Hu, Zhiyuan
Li, Hongxiang
Ma, Lu
Ru, Jinghan
Zou, Yuexian
contents Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks, yet they remain highly susceptible to visual hallucinations (VH), often producing confident but inaccurate descriptions of visual content. Building on the insight that not all tokens and attention heads contribute equally to VH mitigation, we introduce VisFlow, a lightweight and training-free framework that alleviates hallucinations by directly modulating attention patterns during inference. To address two primary challenges of VH, namely insufficient visual attention and the dominance of language priors, we identify three problematic attention behaviors in LVLMs: (1) disproportionate allocation of attention to uninformative or trailing visual tokens, (2) over-dependence on the previously generated token, and (3) excessive fixation on system prompts that hinders multimodal integration. To overcome these issues, VisFlow introduces a dual-level Attention Intervention, consisting of Token-level Attention Intervention (TAI), which reinforces attention to salient visual regions, and Head-level Attention Intervention (HAI), which suppresses undue focus on system prompts and adjacent text tokens. Together, these interventions strengthen visual alignment while reducing linguistic bias. Extensive experiments across diverse models and benchmarks demonstrate that VisFlow effectively mitigates hallucinations with minimal computational overhead.
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spellingShingle Not All Tokens and Heads Are Equally Important: Dual-Level Attention Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation
Tang, Lexiang
Zhuang, Xianwei
Yang, Bang
Hu, Zhiyuan
Li, Hongxiang
Ma, Lu
Ru, Jinghan
Zou, Yuexian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks, yet they remain highly susceptible to visual hallucinations (VH), often producing confident but inaccurate descriptions of visual content. Building on the insight that not all tokens and attention heads contribute equally to VH mitigation, we introduce VisFlow, a lightweight and training-free framework that alleviates hallucinations by directly modulating attention patterns during inference. To address two primary challenges of VH, namely insufficient visual attention and the dominance of language priors, we identify three problematic attention behaviors in LVLMs: (1) disproportionate allocation of attention to uninformative or trailing visual tokens, (2) over-dependence on the previously generated token, and (3) excessive fixation on system prompts that hinders multimodal integration. To overcome these issues, VisFlow introduces a dual-level Attention Intervention, consisting of Token-level Attention Intervention (TAI), which reinforces attention to salient visual regions, and Head-level Attention Intervention (HAI), which suppresses undue focus on system prompts and adjacent text tokens. Together, these interventions strengthen visual alignment while reducing linguistic bias. Extensive experiments across diverse models and benchmarks demonstrate that VisFlow effectively mitigates hallucinations with minimal computational overhead.
title Not All Tokens and Heads Are Equally Important: Dual-Level Attention Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12609