Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

📅 2026-09-15
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为减少多模态大语言模型中的物体幻觉问题,提出了一种无需训练的语义-空间一致性验证方法SSAV,通过聚合多个提示和查询诱导区域验证来提高物体声明的准确性。
📝 Abstract
Multimodal large language models generate natural-language responses from visual inputs, yet may mention objects absent from an image. In medication assistance, accessible perception, and environmental decision-making, such hallucinations can create real-world safety risks. We propose Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification (SSAV), a training-free method for verifying object claims. A visually grounded claim should remain stable across semantically equivalent queries and repeatedly localize to the same image region. SSAV aggregates multiple prompts to estimate semantic support and reduce sensitivity to query wording. Query-Induced Regional Verification (QIRV) combines cross-query region persistence, spatial overlap, and relative candidate dominance to identify isolated high responses and dispersed localizations. A geometric mean fuses semantic and spatial evidence, lowering the verification score when either branch lacks support. Experiments on three base models and multiple evaluation protocols show that SSAV effectively mitigates object hallucination. On LLaVA-1.5-7B, accuracy averaged across COCO, A-OKVQA, and GQA improves by 1.81 and 3.17 percentage points under POPE Popular and Adversarial, respectively, while CHAIRs decreases from 49.40% to 32.80%. These results show that cross-query semantic stability and regional consistency provide interpretable external visual evidence for object claims.
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Multimodal Large Language Models
Object Hallucination
Visual Inputs
Safety Risks
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Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification
Query-Induced Regional Verification
object hallucination
multimodal large language models
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Ziheng Ren
Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China; Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Inform
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Qian Gao
Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China; Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Inform
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Jun Fan
China Telecom Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., Jinan 250101, China
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Guohui Ding
Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang, China
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Zhenyu Yang
Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China; Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Inform
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Yuteng Xiao
Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China; Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Inform