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title = "K-Prism: A {K}orean Diagnostic Benchmark for Multi-faceted Hallucination in Vision-Language Models",
author = "Kim, Min Hyuk and
Shin, Dong Hyok and
Lee, Jimi and
Jang, Jin Yea",
editor = "Zhang, Yue and
Xu, Ruifeng and
Purwarianti, Ayu and
Rong, Tong and
Suzuki, Jun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = nov,
year = "2026",
address = "Hengqin, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.41/",
pages = "632--644",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-440-8",
abstract = "Vision-language models (VLMs) often produce hallucinated outputs that are not supported by visual or textual evidence. While existing benchmarks have advanced hallucination evaluation, they primarily target object-level or task-specific errors and often assess different failure types on separate samples. This design limits direct comparison of hallucination patterns under shared evidence, and most prior evaluations remain English-centric. We introduce K-Prism, a Korean diagnostic benchmark for multi-faceted hallucination analysis in VLMs. K-Prism contains 1,002 multiple-choice questions across text and image tracks, organized into shared-evidence topic groups. Within each group, questions are designed to probe three diagnostic dimensions: factual, reasoning, and misleading. K-Prism uses a controlled dual-mode protocol comparing intact inputs with visually perturbed inputs to examine hallucination under reduced visual evidence. Experiments with closed- and open-source VLMs show dimension-specific degradation rather than a uniform accuracy drop. These findings demonstrate that hallucination in Korean VLMs cannot be captured by a single aggregate score and requires fine-grained diagnostic evaluation across evidence conditions and failure dimensions. Our dataset is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/spaces/KETI-NLP/K-Prism{\_}Benchmark."
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%T K-Prism: A Korean Diagnostic Benchmark for Multi-faceted Hallucination in Vision-Language Models
%A Kim, Min Hyuk
%A Shin, Dong Hyok
%A Lee, Jimi
%A Jang, Jin Yea
%Y Zhang, Yue
%Y Xu, Ruifeng
%Y Purwarianti, Ayu
%Y Rong, Tong
%Y Suzuki, Jun
%S Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
%D 2026
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hengqin, China
%@ 979-8-89176-440-8
%F kim-etal-2026-k-prism
%X Vision-language models (VLMs) often produce hallucinated outputs that are not supported by visual or textual evidence. While existing benchmarks have advanced hallucination evaluation, they primarily target object-level or task-specific errors and often assess different failure types on separate samples. This design limits direct comparison of hallucination patterns under shared evidence, and most prior evaluations remain English-centric. We introduce K-Prism, a Korean diagnostic benchmark for multi-faceted hallucination analysis in VLMs. K-Prism contains 1,002 multiple-choice questions across text and image tracks, organized into shared-evidence topic groups. Within each group, questions are designed to probe three diagnostic dimensions: factual, reasoning, and misleading. K-Prism uses a controlled dual-mode protocol comparing intact inputs with visually perturbed inputs to examine hallucination under reduced visual evidence. Experiments with closed- and open-source VLMs show dimension-specific degradation rather than a uniform accuracy drop. These findings demonstrate that hallucination in Korean VLMs cannot be captured by a single aggregate score and requires fine-grained diagnostic evaluation across evidence conditions and failure dimensions. Our dataset is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/spaces/KETI-NLP/K-Prism_Benchmark.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.41/
%P 632-644
Markdown (Informal)
[K-Prism: A Korean Diagnostic Benchmark for Multi-faceted Hallucination in Vision-Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.41/) (Kim et al., AACL-IJCNLP 2026)
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