发现视觉语言模型会忽略图文信息,提出无训练方法缓解幻觉。
Modality Bias in LVLMs: Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination via Attention Lens
- 通过调整图文注意力权重,平衡双模态感知
- 在多个开源模型和数据集上显著降低幻觉率
- 适合关注多模态对齐与生成可靠性的研究者
大型视觉语言模型(LVLMs)虽具备强大的多模态理解与推理能力,但仍存在严重的对象幻觉问题。以往研究多归因于视觉编码器与大语言模型(LLM)之间规模不匹配导致的语言先验。然而,我们通过深入分析幻觉机制,实证发现一个被忽视的现象:LVLM在产生幻觉时,不仅忽略视觉信息,还可能忽略文本模态,这种行为称为模态偏差,表明模型难以同时关注图文模态,导致对用户指令的理解碎片化。基于此,我们提出一种简单有效的无训练方法,通过干预并调整文本与视觉标记的注意力权重,提升跨模态一致性,更好地对齐用户意图。此外,采用对比解码策略减少模型对参数化知识的过度依赖,协同增强注意力调节效果。大量实验验证了模态偏差在多种LVLM中的普遍存在。值得注意的是,该方法在多个开源LVLM和基准测试中均有效缓解了幻觉,展现出良好的通用性与有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal comprehension and reasoning capabilities, but they still suffer from severe object hallucination. Previous studies primarily attribute the flaw to linguistic prior caused by the scale mismatch between visual encoders and large language models (LLMs) in LVLMs. Specifically, as current LVLMs are built upon LLMs, they tend to over-rely on textual prompts and internal knowledge of LLMs, generating descriptions inconsistent with visual cues. However, through an in-depth investigation of the hallucinated mechanisms, we empirically reveal a previously overlooked phenomenon: LVLMs may ignore not only visual information but also textual modality during hallucination, a behavior termed as modality bias, which indicates that LVLMs struggle to simultaneously attend to both visual and textual modalities, leading to fragmented understanding of user-provided instructions. Based on this observation, we propose a simple yet effective training-free method to mitigate object hallucination. Concretely, we intervene and adjust the attention weights of textual and visual tokens, balancing cross-modal compatibility for better alignment with user intentions. Furthermore, we adopt a contrastive decoding strategy to reduce the LVLM's overreliance on its parametric knowledge, synergistically enhancing our attention manipulation. Extensive experiments confirm the widespread presence of modality bias in LVLMs. Notably, our method effectively mitigates hallucination across multiple open-source LVLMs and benchmarks, highlighting its generalizability and efficacy.
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