Team Eye-Be-Am at SHROOM-Visions

Eli Schwartz


Abstract
We present our system for the SHROOM-Visions 2026 shared task on character-level VLM hallucination detection. A small (4B-parameter) VLM is fine-tuned as a per-token classifier reading a two-token feature from its own hidden states—the token being judged together with the state that predicted it—and is ensembled with a ~400B zero-shot VLM judge at prediction time. Both components see off-the-shelf OCR of any visible in-image text. We use synthetic hallucination data generated by the large model as a source of ensemble diversity, and use validation to select feature layer, training data and OCR grounding. Our official entry reaches mean Cor 0.487 / Cor-lbl 0.387 on the hidden test set, placing 6th/28 (EN), 6th/21 (FR), 8th/21 (IT) and 7th/22 (ZH) on the task’s primary Cor-lbl metric.
Anthology ID:
2026.uncertainlp-main.51
Volume:
The Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
Month:
October
Year:
2026
Address:
Budapest, Hungary
Editors:
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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UncertaiNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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771–779
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https://aclanthology.org/2026.uncertainlp-main.51/
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Eli Schwartz. 2026. Team Eye-Be-Am at SHROOM-Visions. In The Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, pages 771–779, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Team Eye-Be-Am at SHROOM-Visions (Schwartz, UncertaiNLP 2026)
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