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60.7% of hallucination mistakes corrected by adding vision features in two-stage framework on ScienceQA

Quantitative evidence that vision information mitigates hallucinated rationales; 56% of error cases contained hallucinations, 60.7% of which were resolved with vision features.

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Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models

(2023) · Zhuosheng Zhang · Aston Zhang · Mu Li · Hai Zhao +2

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Vision features enable generation of more effective rationales that reduce hallucination and improve answer inference
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Core interpretive assertion: multimodal information (vision + language) produces higher-quality intermediate reasoning steps compared to language-only approaches.

Hypotheses (1)

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We hypothesize that hallucinated rationales in 1B-models result from lack of necessary vision context; incorporating vision features should reduce hallucination and improve rationale quality.
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Predictive hypothesis driving the investigation in Section 3.3; supported by experimental evidence.

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Chain-of-Thought reasoning robustness & safety
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CoT effects on generalization, multimodal QA accuracy, and AI safety alignment training.
Sensory integration in predictive cognition
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Framework viewing perception as active inference mechanism that reduces hallucination through multimodal feature integration and predictive model compression.
Vision-augmented rationale generation
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Two-stage framework using visual features to correct hallucinations on ScienceQA benchmark

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