ConVis: Contrastive Decoding with Hallucination Visualization for Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13906v1
• Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:02:36 GMT
• Title: ConVis: Contrastive Decoding with Hallucination Visualization for Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
• Authors: Yeji Park, Deokyeong Lee, Junsuk Choe, Buru Chang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ConVis, a training-free contrastive decoding method. Our experiments on five popular benchmarks demonstrate that ConVis effectively reduces hallucinations across various MLLMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) where generated responses fail to accurately reflect the given image pose a significant challenge to their reliability. To address this, we introduce ConVis, a novel training-free contrastive decoding method. ConVis leverages a text-to-image (T2I) generation model to semantically reconstruct the given image from hallucinated captions. By comparing the contrasting probability distributions produced by the original and reconstructed images, ConVis enables MLLMs to capture visual contrastive signals that penalize hallucination generation. Notably, this method operates purely within the decoding process, eliminating the need for additional data or model updates. Our extensive experiments on five popular benchmarks demonstrate that ConVis effectively reduces hallucinations across various MLLMs, highlighting its potential to enhance model reliability.

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