When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and Noise
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance but remain prone to relation hallucination, which requires accurate reasoning over inter-object interactions. We study the impact of visual perturbations, specifically rotation and noise, and show that even mild distortions significantly degrade relational reasoning across models and datasets. We further evaluate prompt-based augmentation and preprocessing strategies (orientation correction and denoising), finding that while they offer partial improvements, they do not fully resolve hallucinations. Our results reveal a gap between perceptual robustness and relational understanding, highlighting the need for more robust, g...
| Authors | Philip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Sivani Devarapalli et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 6 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 10 May 2026 |
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