Generating Faithful and Salient Text from Multimodal Data
<|reference_start|>Generating Faithful and Salient Text from Multimodal Data: While large multimodal models (LMMs) have obtained strong performance on many multimodal tasks, they may still hallucinate while generating text. Their performance on detecting salient features from visual data is also unclear. In this paper, we develop a framework to generate faithful and salient text from mixed-modal data, which includes images and structured data ( represented in knowledge graphs or tables). Specifically, we train a small vision critic model to identify hallucinated and non-salient features from the image modality. The critic model also generates a list of salient image features. This information is used in the post editing step to improve the generation quality. Experiments on two datasets show that our framework improves LMMs' generation quality on both faithfulness and saliency, outperforming recent techniques aimed at reducing hallucination.<|reference_end|>
@article{hashem2024generating,
    title={Generating Faithful and Salient Text from Multimodal Data},
    author={Tahsina Hashem, Weiqing Wang, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Mohammed Eunus Ali,
  Yuan-Fang Li},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.03961},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.03961},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}