发现并解决视觉语言模型过度依赖文字的问题,提升图像理解准确性。
Language Bias in LVLMs: From In-Depth Analysis to Simple and Effective Mitigation

- 通过分析训练过程中的模态错位,揭示语言偏见根源。
- 提出LBR和LBP方法,在不加数据情况下显著减少幻觉现象。
- 适合关注多模态模型可靠性与对齐性的研究者和开发者。
大型视觉语言模型(LVLMs)在引入视觉理解能力后,仍存在输出流畅但与图像不符的幻觉问题。现有研究将此归因于语言偏见——模型过度依赖文本而忽略视觉输入。然而多数分析仅停留在经验层面,未揭示根本原因。本文系统研究语言偏见,发现其根源在于训练中模态间的错位。分析表明,视觉指令微调(VIT)和直接偏好优化(DPO)常优先提升文本表现,导致模型偏向语言建模而非平衡的多模态理解。为此,我们提出两种简单有效的方法:在指令微调中引入语言偏见正则化(LBR),以及在DPO过程中施加语言偏见惩罚(LBP)。大量实验在多种模型与基准上验证了效果:LBR在十余个通用基准上持续提升性能,LBP显著降低幻觉率并增强可信度。两者均无需额外数据或辅助模型,即可有效缓解语言偏见,提升整体对齐性。代码已公开于https://github.com/lab-klc/LVLM-Language-Bias。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) extend large language models with visual understanding, but remain vulnerable to hallucination, where outputs are fluent yet inconsistent with images. Recent studies link this issue to language bias-the tendency of LVLMs to over-rely on text while neglecting visual inputs. Yet most analyses remain empirical without uncovering its underlying cause. In this paper, we provide a systematic study of language bias and identify its root in modality misalignment during training. Our analysis shows that both Visual Instruction Tuning (VIT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) often prioritize textual improvements, which may cause LVLMs to overly lean toward language modeling rather than balanced multimodal understanding. To address this, we propose two simple yet effective methods: Language Bias Regularization (LBR) which mitigates language bias through regularization during instruction tuning, and Language Bias Penalty (LBP), which penalizes language bias in the DPO training process. Extensive experiments across diverse models and benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. LBR consistently improves performance on over ten general benchmarks, while LBP significantly reduces hallucination and improves trustworthiness. Together, these methods not only mitigate language bias but also advance the overall alignment of LVLMs, all without introducing any additional data or auxiliary models. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/lab-klc/LVLM-Language-Bias.
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