OViP: Online Vision-Language Preference Learning for VLM Hallucination

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission19382 Authors

Keywords: online learning, multimodal, hallucination

Abstract:

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) remain vulnerable to hallucination, often generating content misaligned with visual inputs.
Although recent training-based approaches aim to mitigate hallucination, they typically rely on predefined or randomly edited negative samples that do not reflect actual model errors, thus limiting training efficacy.
In this work, we propose an Online Vision-language Preference Learning (OViP) framework that dynamically constructs contrastive training data based on the model’s own hallucinated outputs. By identifying semantic differences between sampled response pairs and synthesizing negative images using a diffusion model, OViP generates more relevant supervision signals in real time. This failure-driven training enables adaptive alignment of both textual and visual preferences. Moreover, we refine existing evaluation protocols to better capture the trade-off between hallucination suppression and expressiveness. Experiments on hallucination and general benchmarks demonstrate that OViP not only reduces hallucinations while preserving core multi-modal capabilities, but also substantially improves training efficiency.

Primary Area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities

Submission Number: 19382