Efficient Contrastive Decoding with Probabilistic Hallucination Detection - Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models -

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12137v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:50:25 GMT
• Title: Efficient Contrastive Decoding with Probabilistic Hallucination Detection - Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models -
• Abstract summary: Efficient Contrastive Decoding (ECD) is a simple method that leverages probabilistic hallucination detection to shift the output distribution towards contextually accurate answers at inference time.<n>Our experiments show that ECD effectively mitigates hallucinations, outperforming state-of-the-art methods with respect to performance on LVLM benchmarks and computation time.
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• Abstract: Despite recent advances in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs), these models still suffer from generating hallucinatory responses that do not align with the visual input provided. To mitigate such hallucinations, we introduce Efficient Contrastive Decoding (ECD), a simple method that leverages probabilistic hallucination detection to shift the output distribution towards contextually accurate answers at inference time. By contrasting token probabilities and hallucination scores, ECD subtracts hallucinated concepts from the original distribution, effectively suppressing hallucinations. Notably, our proposed method can be applied to any open-source LVLM and does not require additional LVLM training. We evaluate our method on several benchmark datasets and across different LVLMs. Our experiments show that ECD effectively mitigates hallucinations, outperforming state-of-the-art methods with respect to performance on LVLM benchmarks and computation time.

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