提出PURGE框架,让大模型摆脱对背景的错误依赖,更关注物体本身。
Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models

- 按物体与背景线索分组构建数据,精准诊断模型依赖短路
- 通过选择性遗忘消除错误关联,保持正确推理能力
- 适合作为评估和提升多模态模型可靠性的工具
大型视觉语言模型在多模态任务中表现强劲,但常依赖物体与背景之间的虚假相关性,导致预测由上下文捷径驱动而非对象相关的视觉证据。现有基准对模型是否基于目标对象进行判断缺乏有效控制。本文提出PURGE(Partition-aware Unlearning for Removing spurious-correlation Generated Errors)框架,用于构建、评估和缓解大模型因虚假相关性导致的错误。该框架包含:(1) 结构化数据构建,设计三种互补策略,按物体相关证据与虚假背景线索划分样本,实现对捷径依赖的可控诊断;(2) 分区感知的去学习机制,利用这些分区有选择地消除虚假的物体-背景关联,同时保留基于物体的推理能力。我们在多个大模型上测试该框架,包括LLaVA-1.6-7B、Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct、Qwen3.5-9B及以CLIP为视觉编码器的模型,在CHAIR、POPE、Causal-HalBench、MM-SpuBench、AMBER、MMHal和Waterbirds等多样化基准上验证。结果表明,PURGE在多数设置下持续减少幻觉和虚假相关性引发的错误,同时维持或提升整体性能,提供可复用的评估协议与有效的缓解框架,助力更可靠的视觉语言模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across many multimodal tasks; however, they often exploit spurious object-background correlations, resulting in predictions driven by contextual shortcuts rather than object-relevant visual evidence. Despite growing interest in hallucination and robustness evaluation, existing benchmarks provide limited control over whether model predictions are grounded in the target object or induced by correlated background cues. In this work, we introduce PURGE (\underline{P}artition-aware \underline{U}nlearning for \underline{R}emoving spurious-correlation \underline{G}enerated \underline{E}rrors), a framework for constructing, benchmarking, and mitigating spurious-correlation-induced failures in LVLMs. The framework consists of: -- (1) Structured dataset construction wherein we develop three complementary structured data construction strategies that partition examples by object-relevant evidence and spurious background cues, enabling controlled diagnosis of shortcut reliance; and -- (2) Partition-aware unlearning, which uses these partitions to selectively remove spurious object-background associations while preserving object-based reasoning. We evaluate the \algo~framework across multiple LVLMs, including LLaVA-1.6-7B, Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, and Qwen3.5-9B, together with CLIP as a vision-language encoder, on a diverse suite of benchmarks, including CHAIR, POPE, Causal-HalBench, MM-SpuBench, AMBER, MMHal, and Waterbirds. Our results show that PURGE consistently reduces hallucinations and spurious-correlation-driven errors while maintaining or improving overall performance in most evaluated settings, providing both a reusable evaluation protocol and an effective mitigation framework for more reliable LVLMs.
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