ResearchResearch paperMultimodal Models1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Omni-Woodpecker: Hallucination Correction via Evidence-Prior Rebalancing for Omni LLMs

To address this issue, we propose Omni-Woodpecker (OWP), a training-free framework that shifts hallucination mitigation from output-level manipulation to conflict-conditioned representation rebalancing.

Key points

  • Recent Omni LLMs (OLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in joint audio-visual reasoning, yet cross-modal hallucinations remain a major challenge.
  • Existing mitigation methods mainly operate at the output level, overlooking the entanglement of grounding evidence and learned priors within fused representations.
  • Specifically, OWP first identifies cross-modal conflicts from complementary modality-specific views.
  • Finally, OWP adaptively rebalances fused representations by suppressing misleading priors and restoring ignored evidence before decoding.

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  • [1]Omni-Woodpecker: Hallucination Correction via Evidence-Prior Rebalancing for Omni LLMs
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 19, 06:01 PM
    To address this issue, we propose Omni-Woodpecker (OWP), a training-free framework that shifts hallucination mitigation from output-level manipulation to conflict-conditioned representation rebalancing.
    Recent Omni LLMs (OLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in joint audio-visual reasoning, yet cross-modal hallucinations remain a major challenge.

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