DiVE: Decoupling Intra-layer Visual Evidence for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

摘要

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant progress yet frequently suffer from visual hallucinations, often stemming from an over-reliance on language priors rather than visual evidence. Existing decoding-based approaches often rely on input perturbations to weaken language priors, but they do not explicitly decouple visual evidence from mixed vision–language representations. To address these limitations, we propose DiVE (Decoupling intra-layer Visual Evidence). DiVE dynamically identifies layers enriched with visual information and performs intra-layer decoupling to extract aggregated visual evidence. By suppressing this evidence to construct a language-prior-dominated reference distribution, DiVE employs contrastive decoding to calibrate the output logits, thereby mitigating hallucinations. Extensive experiments across diverse LVLM architectures demonstrate that DiVE achieves state-of-the-art performance among decoding-based methods on multiple benchmarks. Crucially, it eliminates the latency of an extra forward pass, offering a lightweight and efficient solution.