Yixiong Fang

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 44% Vision and language · 22% Language models and text generation · 22%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
epistemic uncertainty
0.912025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
hallucination mitigation
0.912025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
uncertainty estimation
0.912025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model
0.912025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › regularization
dropout
0.312025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › token reduction
token dropout
0.312025
Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

uncertainty-guided dropout · 0.9ensemble decoding · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding
abstract
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at multimodal tasks but are prone to misinterpreting visual inputs, often resulting in hallucinations and unreliable outputs. We present Dropout Decoding, a novel inference-time approach that quantifies the uncertainty of visual tokens and selectively masks uncertain tokens to improve decoding. Our method measures the uncertainty of each visual token by projecting it onto the text space and decomposing it into aleatoric and epistemic components. Specifically, we focus on epistemic uncertainty, which captures perception-related errors more effectively. Inspired by dropout regularization, we introduce uncertainty-guided token dropout, which applies the dropout principle to input visual tokens instead of model parameters, and during inference rather than training. By aggregating predictions from an ensemble of masked decoding contexts, we can robustly mitigate errors arising from visual token misinterpretations. Evaluations on benchmarks including CHAIR, THRONE, and MMBench demonstrate that Dropout Decoding significantly reduces object hallucinations (OH) and enhances both reliability and quality of LVLM outputs across diverse visual contexts.
Yixiong Fang, Ziran Yang, Zhaorun Chen, Zhuokai Zhao
NeurIPS1