2026
Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Causal Route Gating
ICML 2026spotlight
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often hallucinate content that is fluent yet unsupported by the image, limiting their reliability in real-world deployment. We show that a key failure mode arises from route competition: even when visual tokens receive attention, the final token decision can be d…