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Hallusionbench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models

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Guan, Tianrui, Liu, Fuxiao, Wu, Xiyang, Xian, Ruiqi, Li, Zongxia, Liu, Xiaoyu, Wang, Xijun, Chen, Lichang +4 more·2024·2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We introduce “HALLUSIONBENCH11“Hallusion” is a portmanteau of “hallucination” and “illusion.”,” a comprehensive benchmark designed for the evaluation of image-context rea-soning. This benchmark presents significant challenges to advanced large visual-language models (LVLMs), such as GPT-4V(ision), Gemini Pro Vision, Claude 3, and LLaVA-1.5, by emphasizing nuanced understanding and interpre-tation of visual data. The benchmark comprises 346 images paired with 1129 questions, all meticulously crafted by human experts. We introduce a novel structure for these visual questions designed to establish control groups. This structure enables us to conduct a quantitative analysis of the models' response tendencies, logical consistency, and various failure modes. In our evaluation on Hallusion-bench, we benchmarked 15 different models, highlighting a 31.42% question-pair accuracy achieved by the state-of-the-art GPT-4V. Notably, all other evaluated models achieve accuracy below 16%. Moreover, our analysis not only high-lights the observed failure modes, including language hal-lucination and visual illusion but also deepens an under-standing of these pitfalls. Our comprehensive case studies within Hallusionbench shed light on the challenges of hallucination and illusion in LVLMs. Based on these in-sights, we suggest potential pathways for their future im-provement. The benchmark and codebase can be accessed at https://github.com/tianyi-labIHallusionBench.

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  • Current LVLMs are suffering from multi-modal hallucinations, where models provide responses misaligned with the corresponding visual information.

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Guan, T., Liu, F., Wu, X., Xian, R., Li, Z., Liu, X., Wang, X., Chen, L., Huang, F., Yacoob, Y., Manocha, D., & Zhou, T.
Affiliations
University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Venue
2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2024-06-16
Pages
14375-14385
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4402726948
Cited by
166
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 77 · 2025: 76 · 2024: 13
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34.38
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conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • ARO (W911NF2310046,W911NF2310352)
  • NSF (IIS-2147276 FAI)
  • DOD (N00014-22-1-2335,FA9550-23-1-0048)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
hallucinations, optical illusions, large vision-language models, benchmark, failure modes, GPT-4V, LLaVA-1.5, control groups, visual question answering

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