中国科学:信息科学(英文版)2024,Vol.67Issue(12) :48-60.DOI:10.1007/s11432-024-4251-x

Woodpecker:hallucination correction for multimodal large language models

Shukang YIN Chaoyou FU Sirui ZHAO Tong XU Hao WANG Dianbo SUI Yunhang SHEN Ke LI Xing SUN Enhong CHEN
中国科学:信息科学(英文版)2024,Vol.67Issue(12) :48-60.DOI:10.1007/s11432-024-4251-x

Woodpecker:hallucination correction for multimodal large language models

Shukang YIN 1Chaoyou FU 2Sirui ZHAO 1Tong XU 1Hao WANG 1Dianbo SUI 3Yunhang SHEN 4Ke LI 4Xing SUN 4Enhong CHEN1
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作者信息

  • 1. School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China
  • 2. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China;School of Intelligence Science and Technology,Nanjing University,Suzhou 215163,China
  • 3. Institute of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
  • 4. YouTu,Shanghai 200233,China
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Abstract

Hallucinations is a big shadow hanging over the rapidly evolving multimodal large language models(MLLMs),referring to that the generated text is inconsistent with the image content.To miti-gate hallucinations,existing studies mainly resort to an instruction-tuning manner that requires retraining the models with specific data.In this paper,we pave a different way,introducing a training-free method named Woodpecker.Like woodpeckers heal trees,it picks out and corrects hallucinations from the generated text.Concretely,Woodpecker consists of five stages:key concept extraction,question formulation,visual knowledge validation,visual claim generation,and hallucination correction.Implemented in a post-remedy manner,Woodpecker can easily serve different MLLMs,while being interpretable by accessing intermediate outputs of the five stages.We evaluate Woodpecker both quantitatively and qualitatively and show the huge potential of this new paradigm.On the POPE benchmark,our method obtains a 30.66%/24.33%improve-ment in accuracy over the baseline MiniGPT-4/mPLUG-Owl.The source code is released at https://github.com/BradyFU/Woodpecker.

Key words

multimodal learning/multimodal large language models/hallucination correction/large lan-guage models/vision and language

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出版年

2024
中国科学:信息科学(英文版)
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中国科学:信息科学(英文版)

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ISSN:1674-733X
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