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SKstars at SHROOM: Visions Agreement-Guided Ensembling of Zero-Shot and LoRA-Adapted Vision--Language Models

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 7 references
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The results show that combining a large zero-shot model with a smaller adapted model provides a practical framework for multilingual and fine-grained hallucination localization, while also highlighting the difficulty of transferring development-set improvements to hidden test data.

Abstract

This paper describes the SKstars submission to SHROOM-Visions 2026, a shared task on fine-grained hallucination detection in large vision-language model outputs. The task requires systems to identify hallucinated character spans, assign hallucination categories, and provide confidence estimates for their predictions. Our approach combines zero-shot predictions from Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct with those of a LoRA-adapted Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct model. The outputs of the two models are integrated through a lightweight ensemble procedure, followed by span refinement and confidence adjustment. We evaluate the main system components on a small internal development subset and report the performance of the submitted system on the official English test set. SKstars achieved a Cor+Lbl score of 0.2902, ranking 15th among 29 teams, and obtained Cor and IoU scores of 0.3642 and 0.3151, respectively, ranking 18th on both metrics. The results show that combining a large zero-shot model with a smaller adapted model provides a practical framework for multilingual and fine-grained hallucination localization, while also highlighting the difficulty of transferring development-set improvements to hidden test data. Code and predictions: https://github.com/aliathar1401/SK-Stars-shroom-visions-2026

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