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Two-Token Features and Small-Large Ensembles for VLM Hallucination Detection

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arXiv:2609.10244 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Sep 2026]

Title:Two-Token Features and Small-Large Ensembles for VLM Hallucination Detection

Authors:Eli Schwartz
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Abstract:We present our system for the SHROOM-Visions 2026 shared task on character-level VLM hallucination detection. A small ($4$B-parameter) VLM is fine-tuned as a per-token classifier reading a two-token feature from its own hidden states, and is ensembled with a $\sim$400B zero-shot VLM judge at prediction time. Both components see off-the-shelf OCR of any visible in-image text. We use synthetic hallucination data generated by the large model as a source of ensemble diversity, and use validation to select feature layer, training data and OCR grounding. Our official entry reaches mean Cor $0.487$ / Cor-lbl $0.387$ on the hidden test set, placing $6$th/$28$ (EN), $6$th/$21$ (FR), $8$th/$21$ (IT) and $7$th/$22$ (ZH) on the task's primary Cor-lbl metric.
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.10244 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2609.10244v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.10244
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From: Eli Schwartz [view email]
[v1] Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:34:27 UTC (32 KB)
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