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VLM hallucination benchmark confounded by token readout choice

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A new audit of the POPE benchmark for evaluating vision-language model (VLM) hallucinations reveals that the choice of token readout significantly impacts performance. Researchers found that the LLaVA-1.5-7B model's F1 score on the adversarial split could shift by over 6 points depending on whether the evaluation code correctly accounted for space-prefixed tokens like " Yes" and " No", which are generated due to SentencePiece tokenization. This protocol-level confound, rather than model-specific hallucination mitigation, appears to explain substantial gains reported in previous studies, as similar issues were observed across other VLMs. AI

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VLM hallucination benchmark confounded by token readout choice

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Kesav Kumar Jayakumar, Karthigeyan Thilak ·

    Token-Set Choice Confounds POPE: A Systematic Audit of Yes/No Extraction in VLM Hallucination Evaluation

    arXiv:2610.25964v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We set out to reproduce a recent hallucination-mitigation result on the POPE benchmark. The LLaVA-1.5-7B baseline we measured, 82.21 F1 on the adversarial split, sat 1.21 to 8.67 points above the adversarial baselines we p…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Token-Set Choice Confounds POPE: A Systematic Audit of Yes/No Extraction in VLM Hallucination Evaluation

    Evaluation readout choices for vision-language models on the POPE benchmark cause large F1 shifts, revealing that unreported token lookup protocols and quantization confound reported hallucination-mitigation gains.

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