Global Context or Local Detail? Adaptive Visual Grounding for Hallucination Mitigation (2026.findings-acl)
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Yubo Jiang, Xin Yang, Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi, Zheming Yuan, Xuxin Cheng, Cao Liu, Ke Zeng, Fengying Xie, Zhiguo Jiang, Haopeng Zhang
| Challenge: | Large vision–language models suffer from object-existence hallucinations when multi-step deliberation decouples from visual evidence. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that allocates visual computation by uncertainty . they propose highlighting retains global context, while selective zoom-in performs local verification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the complexity of multimodal reasoning by minimizing the operator trade-off. |
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