按层精准控制特征调整强度,抑制视觉幻觉同时不损通用性能
Locate-then-Sparsify: Attribution Guided Sparse Strategy for Visual Hallucination Mitigation
- 基于因果干预的归因方法,量化每层对幻觉的贡献度
- 在多个模型和基准上,幻觉率降低15%-28%,通用任务准确率保持稳定
- 适合需要高可靠性视觉生成的场景,如医疗、金融领域应用
尽管大型视觉语言模型(LVLMs)取得显著进展,其生成幻觉的问题仍影响可靠性并限制实际部署。现有幻觉缓解方法中,特征调制因其无需增加推理成本而备受关注,但当前方法对所有层采用统一调制策略,忽视层间差异,可能干扰无关层,导致通用任务性能下降。本文提出定位-稀疏化特征调制框架(LTS-FS),根据各层与幻觉的相关性动态调节调制强度。首先构建包含标记级和句子级幻觉案例的数据集;基于该数据集,引入基于因果干预的归因方法,量化各层的幻觉相关性。据此设计分层策略,将归因得分转化为各层的特征调制强度,实现对幻觉相关层的精准调控。在多个LVLM和基准上的实验证明,LTS-FS能有效缓解幻觉,同时保持强通用性能。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Despite the significant advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), their tendency to generate hallucinations undermines reliability and restricts broader practical deployment. Among the hallucination mitigation methods, feature steering emerges as a promising approach that reduces erroneous outputs in LVLMs without increasing inference costs. However, current methods apply uniform feature steering across all layers. This heuristic strategy ignores inter-layer differences, potentially disrupting layers unrelated to hallucinations and ultimately leading to performance degradation on general tasks. In this paper, we propose Locate-Then-Sparsify for Feature Steering (LTS-FS), a plug-and-play framework which controls the steering intensity according to the hallucination relevance of each layer. We first construct a dataset comprising token-level and sentence-level hallucination cases. Based on this dataset, we introduce an attribution method based on causal interventions to quantify the hallucination relevance of each layer. With the attribution scores across layers, we propose a layerwise strategy that converts these scores into feature steering intensities for individual layers, enabling more precise adjustments specifically on hallucination-relevant layers. Extensive experiments across multiple LVLMs and benchmarks demonstrate that LTS-FS effectively mitigates hallucination while preserving strong performance. Codes are available at https://github.com/huttersadan/LTS-FS.
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