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Autori principali: Anand, Neeraj, Jha, Samyak, Bamba, Udbhav, Rahaman, Rahul
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00659
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author Anand, Neeraj
Jha, Samyak
Bamba, Udbhav
Rahaman, Rahul
author_facet Anand, Neeraj
Jha, Samyak
Bamba, Udbhav
Rahaman, Rahul
contents Despite the rapid success of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), a persistent challenge is their tendency to generate hallucinated content, undermining reliability in real-world use. Existing training-free methods address hallucinations but face two limitations: (i) they rely on narrow assumptions about hallucination sources, and (ii) their effectiveness declines toward the end of generation, where hallucinations are most likely to occur. A common strategy is to build hallucinated models by completely or partially removing visual tokens and contrasting them with the original model. Yet, this alone proves insufficient, since visual information still propagates into generated text. Building on this insight, we propose a novel hallucinated model that captures hallucination effects by selectively removing key text tokens. We further introduce Generalized Contrastive Decoding, which integrates multiple hallucinated models to represent diverse hallucination sources. Together, these ideas form CRoPS, a training-free hallucination mitigation framework that improves CHAIR scores by 20% and achieves consistent gains across six benchmarks and three LVLM families, outperforming state-of-the-art training-free methods.
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spellingShingle CRoPS: A Training-Free Hallucination Mitigation Framework for Vision-Language Models
Anand, Neeraj
Jha, Samyak
Bamba, Udbhav
Rahaman, Rahul
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Despite the rapid success of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), a persistent challenge is their tendency to generate hallucinated content, undermining reliability in real-world use. Existing training-free methods address hallucinations but face two limitations: (i) they rely on narrow assumptions about hallucination sources, and (ii) their effectiveness declines toward the end of generation, where hallucinations are most likely to occur. A common strategy is to build hallucinated models by completely or partially removing visual tokens and contrasting them with the original model. Yet, this alone proves insufficient, since visual information still propagates into generated text. Building on this insight, we propose a novel hallucinated model that captures hallucination effects by selectively removing key text tokens. We further introduce Generalized Contrastive Decoding, which integrates multiple hallucinated models to represent diverse hallucination sources. Together, these ideas form CRoPS, a training-free hallucination mitigation framework that improves CHAIR scores by 20% and achieves consistent gains across six benchmarks and three LVLM families, outperforming state-of-the-art training-free methods.
title CRoPS: A Training-Free Hallucination Mitigation Framework for Vision-Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00659