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New ACPO framework combats audio hallucination in AVLMs

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Researchers have developed a new framework called Audio-Contrastive Preference Optimization (ACPO) to address cross-modal hallucination in Audio-Visual Language Models (AVLMs). This method aims to prevent models from relying on visual cues to generate audio descriptions, instead prioritizing the actual auditory input. ACPO employs a dual-axis preference learning approach, including an output-contrastive objective to penalize visual shortcuts and an input-contrastive objective that explicitly uses swapped audio tracks to ensure generation is tied to the true audio signal. Experiments indicate that ACPO significantly improves audio grounding and reduces hallucination. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more reliable audio-visual models by reducing reliance on visual shortcuts for audio generation.

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New ACPO framework combats audio hallucination in AVLMs

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Ami Baid, Zihui Xue, Kristen Grauman ·

    Don't Let the Video Speak: Audio-Contrastive Preference Optimization for Audio-Visual Language Models

    arXiv:2604.14129v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Audio-Visual Language Models (AVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress over recent years, their reliability is bottlenecked by cross-modal hallucination. A particularly pervasive manifestation is video-driven audio halluci…

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