AI RESEARCH

Reasoning Matters: Mitigate Hallucination in Multimodal Large Reasoning Models via Reasoning-Conditioned Preference Optimization

arXiv CS.AI

Multimodal Large Reasoning Models introduce the reasoning paradigm, demonstrating strong capabilities on complex vision-language tasks. However, they still suffer from severe hallucinations. Existing training-based methods typically mitigate hallucinations through response-level direct preference optimization (DPO), where the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and the final answer are treated as a monolithic output and optimized jointly.