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Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery

Siqi Lu·Suo Wei·Yongbin Zheng·Jianhang Yao·Wanying Xu·Peng Wang
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While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve remarkable success, hallucinations remain a significant barrier to their reliable deployment. Recent studies primarily attribute these issues to cross-modal attention imbalances; most solutions therefore focus on reweighting visual tokens or suppressing language priors. However, such approaches often overlook the spectral characteristics of the visual information flow and frequently rely on Contrastive Decoding (CD), which doubles inference time. Instead of following conventional approaches, we identify two distinct hallucination patterns-Perceptual-Semantic Dissociation and Localized Fixation-and propose FLASH (Frequency-Localized Attention SHaping), a training-free and CD-free framework. FLASH utilizes a Spectral Vortex Score to detect vision heads within multi-head attention layers and applies adaptive spectral modulation to rectify the visual information flow during decoding. Empirical results demonstrate that FLASH achieves a superior balance between performance and efficiency compared to SOTA methods.

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Siqi Lu, Suo Wei, Yongbin Zheng, Jianhang Yao, Wanying Xu, Peng Wang. 2026-09-29. Beyond Attention Imbalance: Mitigating Hallucinations via Spectral Surgery. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37263

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