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Yixiong Fang
dblp:390/0838
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| 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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
epistemic uncertainty |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
hallucination mitigation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
uncertainty estimation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › regularization
dropout |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout Decoding · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › token reduction
token dropout |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Enhancing Vision-Language Model Reliability with Uncertainty-Guided Dropout DecodingabstractLarge 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 |
NeurIPS | 1 |