Team HalluciNauts at SHROOM-Visions: Anchor-Preserving Dual-Resolution Grounding for Fine-Grained Vision Hallucination Detection

Khang Nhat Hoang Vo


Abstract
We describe our submission to the SHROOM-Visions 2026 English task, which requires detecting hallucinated character spans in image-conditioned responses, assigning confidence scores, and classifying each span as invention, mischaracterization, OCR error, miscounting, or other. Our system combines ModernBERT-large with frozen SigLIP2 patch features at 224×224 and 384×384 resolutions. A primary cross-modal detector produces token-level predictions, while a high-resolution branch adds bounded grounding and anchor-preserving residual corrections. The system uses only the official English training data and publicly available pretrained backbones, without retrieval, generated captions, external OCR, or additional labeled data. Post-hoc ablations show that the anchor-preserving correction provides the clearest incremental gain, while mismatched-image supervision has negligible development impact and histogram calibration is not beneficial. The submitted system achieves 0.2942 Cor and 0.2140 Cor+Lbl on the public leaderboard.
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2026.uncertainlp-main.44
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The Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Wilker Aziz, Jonathan Berant, Bryan Eikema, Evgenia Ilia, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Barbara Plank, Artem Shelmanov, Swabha Swayamdipta, Jörg Tiedemann, Artem Vazhentsev, Raúl Vázquez, Chrysoula Zerva
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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715–721
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Khang Nhat Hoang Vo. 2026. Team HalluciNauts at SHROOM-Visions: Anchor-Preserving Dual-Resolution Grounding for Fine-Grained Vision Hallucination Detection. In The Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, pages 715–721, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Team HalluciNauts at SHROOM-Visions: Anchor-Preserving Dual-Resolution Grounding for Fine-Grained Vision Hallucination Detection (Vo, UncertaiNLP 2026)
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