Papers with contrastive decoding approaches
Adaptive Contrastive Decoding in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Handling Noisy Contexts (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Youna Kim, Hyuhng Joon Kim, Cheonbok Park, Choonghyun Park, Hyunsoo Cho, Junyeob Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee, Taeuk Kim
| Challenge: | Recent research has been developed to amplify contextual knowledge over parametric knowledge of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks such as open-domain question-answering . |
| Approach: | They propose to amplify contextual knowledge over parametric knowledge of large language models (LLMs) by contrastive decoding to leverage contextual influence effectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves open-domain question answering tasks especially in robustness by remaining undistracted by noisy contexts in retrieval-augmented generation. |
Vision-Language Introspection: Mitigating Overconfident Hallucinations in MLLMs via Interpretable Bi-Causal Steering (2026.acl-long)
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Shuliang Liu, Songbo Yang, Dong Fang, Sihang Jia, Yuqi Tang, Lingfeng Su, Ruoshui Peng, Yibo Yan, Xin Zou, Xuming Hu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to overcome object hallucination are limited . Existing mitigations include costly retraining and a training-free inference framework . |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free inference framework that simulates a metacognitive self-correction process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces object hallucination rates by 12.67% on MMHal-Bench and improves accuracy by 5.8% on POPE. |