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  1. ROT: Rotating Hidden States towards Contextual Vectors for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs

    Oct 5, 2026Yijing Du, Xiangcheng Zhan, Shuo YangObject Hallucination in VLMsVLM Hallucination Mitigation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

  2. Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via False Discovery Controlled Visual Data Splitting

    Sep 30, 2026Chang Liu, Yu Tian, Rui XieFDR ControlLarge Vision-Language Models

    School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Central Florida

  3. From Routing Signals to Selective Review: Visual regrounding in MoE VLMs

    Sep 29, 2026Hongzhu Guo, Mohsen Fayyaz, Nanyun PengHallucination Detection in VLMsVision-Language Models

    University of California, Los Angeles · Peking University

  4. Visual sensitivity is not claim retractability: persistence-aware credit assignment for multimodal reinforcement learning

    Sep 29, 2026Zhongan Bi, Kepeng Lin, Xuanang Gao +2Counterfactual Evaluation of VLMsCredit Assignment in RL

    Zhejiang University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  5. DARE to Mitigate Hallucination: Dual-path Auto-Regressive-aware Editing

    Sep 29, 2026Jae-Ho Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Gyeong-Moon ParkVision-Language ModelsLarge Vision-Language Models

    Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  6. Beyond Saying Less: Fine-Grained Alignment for Informative and Faithful Vision-Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Xingming Long, Jie Zhang, Yuecong Min +2Credit Assignment in RLStep-Level Credit Assignment in RL

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Zhongguancun Academy

  7. Where Hallucinations Live: A Cross-Architecture Circuit in VQ-Tokenized Vision-Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Shamanthak Hegde, Xiangrui Liu, Maitreya Patel +1Vision-Language ModelsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Arizona State University · Adobe

  8. Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Ziheng Ren, Qian Gao, Jun Fan +3Hallucination Detection in VLMsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China · Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China · Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Information System Security, Shandong Fundamental Research Center for Computer Science, Jinan 250014, China +2

  9. SAVOR: Self-Aware Visual Grounding via Confidence-Calibrated Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation

    Sep 15, 2026Zixiu Ding, Zilin Zhao, Yingjie He +3Object Hallucination in VLMsVisual Grounding

    Central South University · Peking University

  10. OPD-Aha: From Linguistic Momentum to Visual Reflection in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 15, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Dawei Li, Yechao Zhang +2Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Reasoning

    Arizona State University · University of Virginia · Stevens Institute of Technology

  11. Detecting Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Cross-Modal Attention Drifts and Mask-Based Verification

    Sep 2, 2026Xuanbing Wen, Boxu Chen, Le Yang +4Hallucination Detection in VLMsHallucination Detection

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · Zhongguancun Laboratory, Beijing 100194, China

  12. Beyond Language Priors: Diagnosing and Fixing Visual-Origin Hallucinations in Multimodal LLM

    Aug 31, 2026Peiyang Xu, Xiaopei Zhu, Jun Zhu +1Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Contrastive Learning

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China

  13. Fine-Grained Multi Image Object Hallucination Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Joonki Min, Chaeyun Kim, Hyungwook Choi +4VLM EvaluationObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Seoul National University · AIM Intelligence

  14. VisER: Visual Evidence and Reliance for Object Hallucination Detection in LVLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1Hallucination Detection in VLMsVLM Hallucination

    School of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

  15. Hallucination Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models via Implicit Feature Stabilization

    Aug 30, 2026Aditi Sarker, Rafi Ibn Sultan, Hui Zhu +2VLM RobustnessVision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, MI, USA · Institute for AI and Data Science (AIDaS), Wayne State University, MI, USA

  16. Dual-Stream Cross-Anchor Correction Grounding Long-Form Captions and the Domain Limits of Object-Level Anchors

    Aug 13, 2026LingKai BuImage CaptioningObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China

  17. Context Blindness in DPO: Mitigating Object Hallucination in MLLMs via Context-Calibrated Preference Optimization

    Aug 12, 2026Byungoh Ko, Jinyoung Park, Jongha Kim +3Direct Preference OptimizationObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  18. Test-Time Hallucination Control in Large Vision-Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Mehran Tamjidi, Hamidreza Dastmalchi, Ali Cheraghian +3Test-Time Adaptation of VLMsLarge Vision-Language Models

    University of Technology Sydney · York University, Canada · Australian National University +2

  19. UniProbe: A Learnable Token-Level Hallucination Detector for Large VLMs using Multi-Structural Internal Representations

    Aug 11, 2026Dvir Samuel, Guy Bar-Shalom, Fabrizio Frasca +4Hallucination Detection in VLMsVLM Hallucination

    NVIDIA Research, Tel Aviv, Israel · Technion, Haifa, Israel · Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel +1

  20. Wiener Representation Filtering for VLM Hallucination Suppression

    Aug 8, 2026Ameen Ali, Tamim Zoabi, Lidor Brami +1Vision-Language ModelsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Tel Aviv University

  21. Same Attention, Different Truths: Put Logit-Lens over Visual Attention to Detect and Mitigate LVLM Object Hallucination

    Aug 7, 2026Zichuan Wang, Songlin Yang, Bo Peng +4Hallucination Detection in VLMsVision-Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science

  22. TruthLens: Object Hallucination Detection via Self-Evaluating Truthfulness Scores in LVLMs

    Aug 6, 2026Yanqi Wu, Runhe Lai, Xinhua Lu +5VLM EvaluationHallucination Detection in VLMs

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing, MOE, Guangzhou, China +2

  23. Hallucinations Leave a Grounding Signature:Verifier-Guided Decoding for Selective Object Correction

    Jul 30, 2026Lei Yang, Xinze Liu, Dayan Wu +7Hallucination Detection in VLMsLLM Hallucination Mitigation

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  24. Rethinking CD: A Reproducibility Study and Extension on the Ineffectiveness of Contrastive Decoding at Mitigating Object Hallucinations in MLLMs

    Jul 28, 2026Arnav Bendre, Guneesh Gupta, Kavish Grover +2Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Large Language Models

    Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee · Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee · Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee +2

  25. PerceptionBench: Evaluating Atomic Visual Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 27, 2026Zichao Lin, Yifeng Xie, Bowen Qu +30Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Large Language Models

    Moonshot AI

  26. Disentangling Semantic Attention from Structural Bias in the Attention Manifold

    Jul 27, 2026Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen +1Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Large Language Models

    Fudan University · Singapore Management University

  27. MissingBench-Verified: Probing Vision-Language Models' Inability to Detect Missing Object Parts

    Jul 21, 2026Wenqi Marshall Guo, Qingyun Qian, Shiyu Zhou +2VLM EvaluationObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Department of CMPS, University of British Columbia, Canada · Weathon Software, Canada · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

  28. Detector Confidence Signals Presence Rather Than Occlusion in Cluttered Manipulation

    Jul 15, 2026Yuanzhi HeOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionOcclusion Reasoning

    School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University

  29. Evolution of Accuracy and Visual-Cognitive Errors in a Decade of Vision-Language AI Models

    Jul 10, 2026Shravan Murlidaran, Miguel P. EcksteinVLM EvaluationImage Captioning

    aPsychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA · bDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA · cDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA

  30. SeeMe: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Effective Visual Token Engineering

    Jul 5, 2026Kai Tang, Jinhao You, Bohua Zhang +6Large Vision-Language ModelsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Nanyang Technological University · University of Pennsylvania +4

  31. ADAPT: Attention Dynamics Alignment with Preference Tuning for Faithful MLLMs

    Jun 30, 2026Zhiyuan Yao, Zheren Fu, Zhixiao Zheng +3Cross-AttentionDirect Preference Optimization

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · State Key Laboratory of Communication Content Cognition, People’s Daily Online, China · Huawei Technologies Ltd., China

  32. See Only When Needed: Context-Aware Attention Intervention for Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs

    Jun 29, 2026Yuqing Lei, Wenbo Lyu, Yingjun Du +3Visual AttentionLarge Vision-Language Models

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Amsterdam · United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.

  33. FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models

    Jun 28, 2026Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Fenglai Lin +5Vision-Language ModelsLarge Vision-Language Models

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · 3Tsinghua University

  34. HKVLM: Faithful Query--Region Binding for Frozen-Detector Visual Grounding

    Jun 27, 2026Bo MaSelective PredictionCross-Modal Alignment

    Auckland University of Technology

  35. Dismantling Pathological Shortcuts: A Causal Framework for Faithful LVLM Decoding

    Jun 25, 2026Liu Yu, Can Chen, Ping Kuang +3Object Hallucination in VLMsFaithfulness in VLMs

    School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  36. Vision-driven Preference Synthesis for Mitigating Hallucinations in VLMs

    Jun 24, 2026Yunhun Nam, Jongheon JeongSynthetic Data GenerationObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Korea University

  37. Spectral Query-Key Product Weight Steering for Training-Free VLM Hallucination Mitigation

    Jun 18, 2026Karn Tiwari, Varnith Chordia, Prathosh A PObject Hallucination in VLMsVLM Hallucination Mitigation

    1Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru · 2Snap Research

  38. Look Again Before You Abstain:Budgeted Conformal Evidence Acquisition for Reliable Vision-Language Model

    Jun 15, 2026Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley +1Hallucination Detection in VLMsActive Perception

    RIKEN iTHEMS · RIKEN AIP · South China University of Technology +1

  39. Visual Para-Thinker++: A Single-Policy Multi-Agent Framework for Visual Reasoning

    Jun 8, 2026Haoran Xu, Hongyu Wang, Yifei Gao +4Object Hallucination in VLMsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Zhejiang University · Hunan University · Tianjin University +3

  40. HorusEye: Language as Dynamic Attention for Emergency Visual Analysis

    Jun 2, 2026Armel YaraVLM RobustnessVision-Language Models

  41. P2^2-DPO: Grounding Hallucination in Perceptual Processing via Calibration Direct Preference Optimization

    Jun 2, 2026Ruipeng Zhang, Zhihao Li, Haozhang Yuan +2VLM RobustnessDirect Preference Optimization

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational AI Models and Cognitive Intelligence, School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology · Pazhou Lab, Guangzhou, China · Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education on Health Intelligent Perception and Paralleled Digital-Human, Guangzhou, China

  42. Mitigating Manifold Departure: Uncertainty-Aware Subspace Rectification for Trustworthy MLLM Decoding

    May 31, 2026Yingxuan Zhuang, Jingxiao Yang, Miao Pan +7Object Hallucination in VLMsVLM Hallucination Mitigation

    Ningbo Global Innovation Center, Zhejiang University

  43. YARD: Y-Architecture Register Decoding for Efficient Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models

    May 29, 2026Ting Chen, Geng Li, Guohao Chen +5Efficient VLM InferenceObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Guangdong University of Technology · Nanyang Technological University · Shenzhen TENCLASS Technology Co., Ltd.

  44. CFCamo: A Counterfactual Detect-or-Abstain Framework for Camouflaged Object Detection

    May 28, 2026Suhang Li, Osamu Yoshie, Yuya IeiriSelective PredictionObject Hallucination in VLMs

    The authors are with the Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Fukuoka, Japan.

  45. Mitigating Hallucination in Vision-Language Models through Barrier-Regulated Adaptive Closed-form Steering

    May 28, 2026Soumyadeep Jana, Pulkit Mittal, Sanasam Ranbir SinghHallucination in Language ModelsLarge Vision-Language Models

    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

  46. VCap: Hypergeometric Rewards for Weak-to-Strong Visual Captioning

    May 27, 2026Xingyu Lu, Jinpeng Wang, Yi-Fan Zhang +13Image CaptioningObject Hallucination in VLMs

    1Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School · 2Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · 3Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  47. Rethinking Visual Neglect: Steering via Context-Preference for MLLM Hallucination Mitigation

    May 27, 2026Jingwen Wu, Xijun Zhang, Ge SongLLM Hallucination MitigationHallucination in Language Models

    School of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University, China

  48. Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

    May 25, 2026Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10Multimodal GroundingObject Hallucination in VLMs

    1UIUC · 2Amazon

  49. Language Bias in LVLMs: From In-Depth Analysis to Simple and Effective Mitigation

    May 24, 2026Yangneng Chen, Jing LiVision-Language ModelsVLM Adaptation

    1Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China.

  50. Universal Boosts, Specific Suppressors: Sparse Autoencoder Steering of Medical Vision-Language Models

    May 24, 2026Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Benjamin Gundersen, Nicolas Deperrois +7Radiology Report GenerationHealthcare

    University of Zurich and University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland · Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland · Kobe University, Japan +3

  51. Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models through Region-Aware Attention Recalibration

    May 24, 2026Yuanzhi Xu, Qian Gao, Jun Fan +4VLM RobustnessVision-Language Models

    Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) Jinan, China · China Telecom Digital Intelligence Technology Co, Ltd Jinan, China · Shenyang Aerospace University Shenyang, China +1

  52. Correcting Visual Blur Induced by Attention Distraction to Reduce Hallucinations: Algorithm and Theory

    May 23, 2026Quanjiang Li, Zhiming Liu, Wei Luo +2LLM Hallucination MitigationHallucination in Language Models

    National University of Defense Technology, China · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China · Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

  53. CHASD: Language Increment-Calibrated Contrastive Decoding against Hallucination in LVLMs

    May 22, 2026Xiaoyi Huang, Kejia Zhang, Zhiming LuoHallucination Detection in VLMsEfficient VLM Inference

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University

  54. Transcoders Trace Visual Grounding and Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models

    May 21, 2026Dimitrios Damianos, Leon Voukoutis, Georgios Skyrianos +2Object Hallucination in VLMsVLM Interpretability

    Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center Athens, Greece

  55. Reducing Object Hallucination in LVLMs via Emphasizing Image-negative Tokens

    May 20, 2026Meng Shen, Minghao Wu, Deepu RajanVision-Language ModelsHallucination in Language Models

    Nanyang Technological University · Monash University

  56. Pseudocode-Guided Structured Reasoning for Automating Reliable Inference in Vision-Language Models

    May 19, 2026Weicong Ni, Tianbao Jiang, Linlin WangVLM RobustnessObject Hallucination in VLMs

    All authors are with East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

  57. ClaimDiff-RL: Fine-Grained Caption Reinforcement Learning through Visual Claim Comparison

    May 19, 2026Tianle Li, Xuyang Shen, Yan Ma +7VLM EvaluationReward Modeling

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2MiniMax

  58. Vision Inference Former: Sustaining Visual Consistency in Multimodal Large Language Models

    May 18, 2026Xinpeng Dong, Min Zhang, Kairong Han +3Object Hallucination in VLMsMultimodal Large Language Models

    Zhejiang University · East China Normal University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology

  59. IVR-R1: Refining Trajectories through Iterative Visual-Grounded Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning

    May 18, 2026Chenghao Li, Fusheng Hao, Xikai Zhang +5Multimodal GroundingObject Hallucination in VLMs

    Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University · Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology, Shenzhen · Kuaishou Technology +1

  60. Dual-Pathway Circuits of Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

    May 13, 2026Jiaxin Liu, Ding Zhong, Yue Wang +6Vision-Language ModelsObject Hallucination in VLMs

    UIUC · UMich · Stanford +5