arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-08
HIVE: Understanding Post-Hallucination Reasoning in Vision Language Models
Feng He, Zhenting Wang, Qifan Wang, Qiang Guan, Dongfang Liu, Ruixiang Tang, et al.
Hallucinations in vision language models (VLMs) are commonly treated as semantic errors, yet they often arise from partial or ambiguous visual evidence. Prior work mainly focuses on detecting or suppressing hallucinations at generation time, leaving the subsequent reasoning stage…