arXiv:2601.00623cs.AI2026-01中稿 · TMLR被引 3

通过难易度加权,让大模型更关注难样本,减少幻觉。

DA-DPO: Cost-efficient Difficulty-aware Preference Optimization for Reducing MLLM Hallucinations

  • 用双目标视觉语言模型估算偏好对难易度,无需额外训练。
  • 重加权难样本,提升对幻觉的抑制能力,准确率更高。
  • 无需新数据或调参,适合资源有限的模型优化场景。

直接偏好优化(DPO)在缓解多模态大模型(MLLM)幻觉方面展现出潜力,但现有方法因偏好数据难度不平衡而易过拟合。分析表明,MLLM倾向于过度关注易区分的偏好对,影响细粒度幻觉抑制并降低整体性能。为此,我们提出难度感知的直接偏好优化(DA-DPO),一种低成本框架以平衡学习过程。该框架包含两部分:(1) 难度估计利用具有互补生成与对比目标的预训练视觉-语言模型,通过分布感知投票策略生成鲁棒的难度分数,无需额外训练;(2) 难度感知训练根据估计难度重新加权偏好对,降低简单样本权重、强化困难样本,从而缓解过拟合。该方法通过优先处理挑战性样本实现更有效的偏好优化,无需新增数据或额外微调阶段。大量实验表明,DA-DPO持续提升多模态偏好优化效果,在标准基准上显著增强对幻觉的鲁棒性与泛化能力,同时保持计算高效。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has shown strong potential for mitigating hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing multimodal DPO approaches often suffer from overfitting due to the difficulty imbalance in preference data. Our analysis shows that MLLMs tend to overemphasize easily distinguishable preference pairs, which hinders fine-grained hallucination suppression and degrades overall performance. To address this issue, we propose Difficulty-Aware Direct Preference Optimization (DA-DPO), a cost-effective framework designed to balance the learning process. DA-DPO consists of two main components: (1) Difficulty Estimation leverages pre-trained vision--language models with complementary generative and contrastive objectives, whose outputs are integrated via a distribution-aware voting strategy to produce robust difficulty scores without additional training; and (2) Difficulty-Aware Training reweights preference pairs based on their estimated difficulty, down-weighting easy samples while emphasizing harder ones to alleviate overfitting. This framework enables more effective preference optimization by prioritizing challenging examples, without requiring new data or extra fine-tuning stages. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DA-DPO consistently improves multimodal preference optimization, yielding stronger robustness to hallucinations and better generalization across standard benchmarks, while remaining computationally efficient. The project page is available at https://artanic30.github.io/project_pages/DA-DPO/.

多模态偏好优化幻觉抑制效率

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