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Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Duc Anh Vu, Shuai Zhao, Thong Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University introduce CutPaste&Find, an efficient, training-free framework for detecting object, attribute, and relationship hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Model outputs. This offline solution leverages off-the-shelf modules and a Visual-aid Knowledge Base, achieving higher accuracy than API-dependent methods on POPE and R-Bench benchmarks.

Key insights

  • Off-the-shelf visual and linguistic modules, combined with scene graph parsing, can efficiently detect hallucinations without relying on costly, iterative LVLM inference.
  • A Visual-aid Knowledge Base, constructed from richly annotated datasets like Visual Genome, offers a reliable source of visual prior knowledge for verifying claims.
  • Introducing a scaling factor based on prior knowledge from the VaKB enhances the robustness of visual-linguistic similarity scores, leading to more accurate hallucination identification.

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