arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-31
When Model Priors Conflict with Visual Evidence: Mitigating Commonsense-Driven Hallucinations by Selective Prior Calibration
Kesheng Chen, Yamin Hu, Wenjian Luo
In vision--language models, commonsense-driven hallucination (CDH) occurs when a model's commonsense prior overrides clear visual evidence of an atypical state. For example, a model may report that a visibly six-fingered hand has five fingers. We show that these errors are system…