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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29431v4
• Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:19:40 GMT
• Title: FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models
• Abstract summary: We investigate the information flow through each transformer layer and find that attention modules consistently aggregate visual evidence.<n>We propose FADE (FFN Attenuation for DEcoding), a training-free method that attenuates FFN outputs to reduce language-prior dominance.
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• Abstract: Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they remain susceptible to hallucination, generating content inconsistent with the input image. Recent studies attribute this to the dominance of language priors over visual inputs and employ contrastive decoding methods to mitigate this dominance, but the mechanistic origin remains unexplored. We investigate the information flow through each transformer layer and find that attention modules consistently aggregate visual evidence, while FFN modules at critical layers act as the source of language priors. These priors can override visual evidence, causing correct predictions in intermediate layers to drift toward incorrect outputs. Based on this insight, we propose FADE (FFN Attenuation for DEcoding), a training-free method that attenuates FFN outputs to reduce language-prior dominance. Evaluations on POPE, CHAIR, and MME benchmarks across LLaVA-1.5, mPLUG-Owl2, and InstructBLIP show that FADE effectively mitigates hallucinations while preserving inference efficiency.

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