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Auteurs principaux: Li, Junxian, Xu, Xinyue, Ma, Sai, Zhang, Di, Li, Sichao
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08409
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author Li, Junxian
Xu, Xinyue
Ma, Sai
Zhang, Di
Li, Sichao
author_facet Li, Junxian
Xu, Xinyue
Ma, Sai
Zhang, Di
Li, Sichao
contents Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from unfaithfulness, generating reasoning chains that drift from visual evidence or contradict final predictions. We propose Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting (RPA) framework in which FaithEvi provides step-wise and chain-level supervision by evaluating the faithfulness of intermediate reasoning, and FaithAct uses these signals to plan and execute faithfulness-aware actions during inference. Experiments across multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks show that faithful-first RPA improves perceptual faithfulness by up to 24% over prompt-based and tool-augmented reasoning frameworks, without degrading task accuracy. Our analysis shows that treating faithfulness as a guiding principle perceptually faithful reasoning trajectories and mitigates hallucination behavior. This work thereby establishes a unified framework for both evaluating and enforcing faithfulness in multimodal reasoning. Code is at https://github.com/lijunxian111/Faithful-First-RPA.
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spellingShingle Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting for Multimodal LLMs
Li, Junxian
Xu, Xinyue
Ma, Sai
Zhang, Di
Li, Sichao
Artificial Intelligence
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently suffer from unfaithfulness, generating reasoning chains that drift from visual evidence or contradict final predictions. We propose Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting (RPA) framework in which FaithEvi provides step-wise and chain-level supervision by evaluating the faithfulness of intermediate reasoning, and FaithAct uses these signals to plan and execute faithfulness-aware actions during inference. Experiments across multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks show that faithful-first RPA improves perceptual faithfulness by up to 24% over prompt-based and tool-augmented reasoning frameworks, without degrading task accuracy. Our analysis shows that treating faithfulness as a guiding principle perceptually faithful reasoning trajectories and mitigates hallucination behavior. This work thereby establishes a unified framework for both evaluating and enforcing faithfulness in multimodal reasoning. Code is at https://github.com/lijunxian111/Faithful-First-RPA.
title Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting for Multimodal LLMs
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08409