arXiv:2603.23853cs.AIcs.MA2026-03中稿 · ICLR

多视觉语言模型输出不确定性量化,提升系统可靠性。

SCoOP: Semantic Consistent Opinion Pooling for Uncertainty Quantification in Multiple Vision-Language Model Systems

  • 将多个模型视为专家,通过语义一致池化聚合意见。
  • 在ScienceQA上检测幻觉的AUROC达0.866,优于基线10%-13%。
  • 无需训练,开销微乎其微,适合高可靠需求场景。

融合多个视觉语言模型(VLMs)可增强多模态推理与鲁棒性,但异构模型输出的聚合会放大不确定性并增加幻觉风险。本文提出SCoOP(语义一致意见池化),一种无需训练的多VLM系统不确定性量化(UQ)框架,采用不确定性加权线性意见池化。核心思想是将每个VLM视为概率“专家”,采样多个输出,映射至统一空间,聚合其意见并生成系统级不确定性评分。与仅针对单模型设计的先前UQ方法不同,SCoOP显式度量跨多个VLM的集体系统级不确定性,实现有效幻觉检测与高不确定性样本的回避。在ScienceQA数据集上,SCoOP的幻觉检测AUROC达到0.866,优于基线(0.732–0.757)约10%–13%;回避性能的AURAC为0.907,高于基线(0.818–0.840)7%–9%。尽管性能提升显著,但相比基线仅引入微秒级聚合开销,远低于典型VLM推理时间(约秒级)。结果表明,SCoOP提供了一种高效且原理严谨的不确定性感知聚合机制,提升了多模态AI系统的可靠性。代码已公开于https://github.com/chungenyu6/SCoOP。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Combining multiple Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enhance multimodal reasoning and robustness, but aggregating heterogeneous models' outputs amplifies uncertainty and increases the risk of hallucinations. We propose SCoOP (Semantic-Consistent Opinion Pooling), a training-free uncertainty quantification (UQ) framework for multi-VLM systems through uncertainty-weighted linear opinion pooling. The core idea is to treat each VLM as a probabilistic "expert," sample multiple outputs, map them to a unified space, aggregate their opinions, and produce a system-level uncertainty score. Unlike prior UQ methods designed for single models, SCoOP explicitly measures collective, system-level uncertainty across multiple VLMs, enabling effective hallucination detection and abstention for highly uncertain samples. On ScienceQA, SCoOP achieves an AUROC of 0.866 for hallucination detection, outperforming baselines (0.732-0.757) by approximately 10-13%. For abstention, it attains an AURAC of 0.907, exceeding baselines (0.818-0.840) by 7-9%. Despite these gains, SCoOP introduces only microsecond-level aggregation overhead relative to the baselines, which is trivial compared to typical VLM inference time (on the order of seconds). These results demonstrate that SCoOP provides an efficient and principled mechanism for uncertainty-aware aggregation, advancing the reliability of multimodal AI systems. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/chungenyu6/SCoOP.

多模态不确定性量化视觉语言模型幻觉检测

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