研究视觉语言模型在感知退化下的语义错位问题,揭示其安全风险。
Semantic Misalignment in Vision-Language Models under Perceptual Degradation
- 在城市景观数据集上测试视觉模型退化时的语义对齐情况
- 发现模型在分割精度微降时出现严重幻觉和关键物体遗漏
- 提出语言级错位度量,适合自动驾驶等高危场景评估
视觉语言模型(VLMs)在自动驾驶与具身智能系统中日益广泛应用,可靠感知对其语义推理与决策至关重要。尽管近期VLM在多模态基准上表现良好,但其对真实感知退化的鲁棒性仍不明确。本文在城市景观(Cityscapes)数据集上,以语义分割为典型感知模块,系统研究了上游视觉感知退化下的语义错位现象。引入感知现实的退化扰动,在传统分割指标仅轻微下降的情况下,下游VLM行为却出现严重失效:包括幻觉对象提及、安全关键实体遗漏以及安全判断不一致。为此,我们提出一组语言级错位度量,涵盖幻觉、关键遗漏与安全误判,并分析其与分割质量的关系,覆盖多种对比与生成式VLM。结果揭示像素级鲁棒性与多模态语义可靠性之间存在显著脱节,暴露出当前VLM系统的重大局限,亟需在安全关键应用中建立考虑感知不确定性的评估框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in autonomous driving and embodied AI systems, where reliable perception is critical for safe semantic reasoning and decision-making. While recent VLMs demonstrate strong performance on multimodal benchmarks, their robustness to realistic perception degradation remains poorly understood. In this work, we systematically study semantic misalignment in VLMs under controlled degradation of upstream visual perception, using semantic segmentation on the Cityscapes dataset as a representative perception module. We introduce perception-realistic corruptions that induce only moderate drops in conventional segmentation metrics, yet observe severe failures in downstream VLM behavior, including hallucinated object mentions, omission of safety-critical entities, and inconsistent safety judgments. To quantify these effects, we propose a set of language-level misalignment metrics that capture hallucination, critical omission, and safety misinterpretation, and analyze their relationship with segmentation quality across multiple contrastive and generative VLMs. Our results reveal a clear disconnect between pixel-level robustness and multimodal semantic reliability, highlighting a critical limitation of current VLM-based systems and motivating the need for evaluation frameworks that explicitly account for perception uncertainty in safety-critical applications.
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