Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs

Toqeer Ehsan, Nico Penttilä, Richard Schmidt, Arash Hajikhani, Victoria Palacin


Abstract
This paper describes our submission to the SHROOM-Visions shared task on detecting and classifying hallucinated character spans in vision-language model outputs across four languages. We employ several fine-tuned vision-language models as independent annotators and combine their span predictions through character-level majority voting, and additionally explore activation probes. The approach ranks first in three of four languages and places on the podium in every language and metric. Our analysis indicates that disagreement among diverse models tracks disagreement among human annotators.
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2026.uncertainlp-main.52
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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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Toqeer Ehsan, Nico Penttilä, Richard Schmidt, Arash Hajikhani, and Victoria Palacin. 2026. Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs. In The Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, pages 780–788, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs (Ehsan et al., UncertaiNLP 2026)
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