Summary of Metatoken: Detecting Hallucination in Image Descriptions by Meta Classification, By Laura Fieback (1 et al.
MetaToken: Detecting Hallucination in Image Descriptions by Meta Classification
by Laura Fieback, Jakob Spiegelberg, Hanno Gottschalk
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes MetaToken, a lightweight binary classifier that detects hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) at negligible cost. The problem of hallucinations in LVLMs, where inconsistencies between visual information and generated text occur, has been overlooked in previous works. By analyzing the statistical factors contributing to hallucinations, the authors reveal key insights that can be applied to any open-source LVLM without requiring ground truth data. Their approach evaluates the effectiveness of MetaToken on four state-of-the-art LVLMs, demonstrating its reliability in detecting hallucinations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to check if Large Vision Language Models are making things up when describing images. The models can be really good at doing things like answering questions about pictures or writing captions for them. But sometimes they make mistakes and describe things that aren’t even there! This is called hallucination, and it’s a problem because we want these models to be trustworthy. The paper proposes a new way to spot when the model is making something up, using a special tool that can work with any of these large language models without needing any extra information. They test this tool on four different models and show that it works really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination
