HulluEdit: Single-Pass Evidence-Consistent Subspace Editing for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22727v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:08:25 GMT
• Title: HulluEdit: Single-Pass Evidence-Consistent Subspace Editing for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
• Abstract summary: HulluEdit is a single-pass, reference-free intervention framework.<n>We decompose the hidden states of the model into subspaces.<n>This allows selective suppression of hallucinatory patterns without interfering with visual grounding.
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• Abstract: Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly hinders their reliable deployment. Existing methods struggle to balance efficiency and accuracy: they often require expensive reference models and multiple forward passes, or apply static edits that risk suppressing genuine visual evidence. To address this, we introduce HulluEdit, a single-pass, reference-free intervention framework. Our core innovation is orthogonal subspace editing: we decompose the hidden states of the model into orthogonal subspaces - visual evidence, conflicting priors, and residual uncertainty - enabling selective suppression of hallucinatory patterns without interfering with visual grounding. This approach mathematically guarantees that edits applied to the prior subspace leave the visual component entirely unaffected. Extensive experiments show that HulluEdit achieves state-of-the-art hallucination reduction on benchmarks including POPE and CHAIR across diverse architectures, while preserving general capabilities on MME and maintaining efficient inference. Our method consistently outperforms contrastive decoding and static subspace editing baselines, offering a new pathway toward more trustworthy LVLMs.

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