Zonghan Wu

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2026

Multimodal long-chain-of-thought (CoT) generation requires models to dynamically route information between visual evidence and an expanding reasoning history. Existing hallucination mitigation methods often strengthen visual grounding or intervene in decoding, but typically treat grounding as a relatively static property of generation. We propose a training-free dynamic attention intervention framework that exploits the head-level sparsity, layer-level stratification, and trajectory-level dynamics of multimodal long-CoT decoding. Our method selects routing-sensitive heads using perturbation-only calibration, assigns visual-evidence and reasoning-history interventions to different layer regions, and continuously rescales selected head outputs according to their instantaneous token-group attention ratios. Across multiple MLLM architectures and multimodal hallucination benchmarks, our method consistently improves over vanilla decoding and visual contrastive decoding, achieving an average performance gain of 4.6%.