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Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding

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Making MLLMs More Truthful: Reward-Guided Decoding for Fewer Hallucinations

This paper introduces Multimodal Reward-Guided Decoding (MRGD), a new technique to reduce hallucinations in MLLM-generated image captions by incorporating rewards for both precision and recall during decoding. This method offers control over this trade-off at inference time, achieving superior hallucination mitigation and recall compared to existing methods. The authors also demonstrate a trade-off between visual grounding and computational cost during inference, controlled by the search breadth.

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This paper introduces a new method to control what multimodal large language models (MLLMs, i.e., models that can process images and text) say, especially for describing images. It uses rewards to guide the model towards making more precise statements about objects observed in an image, reducing hallucinations.

Posibles conflictos de intereses

Some authors are affiliated with Meta, which has a vested interest in developing MLLMs.

Limitaciones identificadas

Limited Evaluation Scope
The evaluation is primarily conducted on image captioning benchmarks focused on object hallucinations. It remains to be seen how well MRGD generalizes to other types of visual hallucinations or other multimodal tasks.
Limited Model Generalization
The study is limited to certain models, making it important to see how well this technique generalizes. While they show some transfer to newer models, broader testing is essential.
Increased Computational Cost
While effective in some cases, it's important to understand that this method requires more compute at inference time. The impact on real-world latency is a consideration.

Explicación de la calificación

This paper presents a novel and valuable approach to controlling MLLM outputs during inference, showing improvements in reducing hallucinations while offering flexibility in controlling the trade-off between precision and recall. While limitations exist regarding the evaluation scope and computational cost, the method's novelty, effectiveness, and potential impact warrant a strong rating.

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Título original: Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding
Subido: 18 ago 2025, 20:06:02
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