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arxiv: 2606.00377 · v1 · pith:MHX2LFGBnew · submitted 2026-05-29 · 💻 cs.CV

Score-Control for Hallucination Reduction in Diffusion Models

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keywords diffusion modelshallucinationsscore functionlipschitz constantvariance-guided modulationimage generationgenerative models
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Variance-guided modulation of the score Jacobian reduces hallucinations in diffusion models by lowering the Lipschitz constant of the learned score.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Diffusion models generate hallucinations when the learned score function is too smooth, placing excess probability mass on implausible outputs outside the true data distribution. The paper links this probability mass directly to the Lipschitz constant of the score and confirms the link empirically on image generation tasks. It introduces Variance-Guided Score Modulation to control the score Jacobian, which reduces smoothness and moves the learned score closer to the ground-truth score. Experiments show the method cuts hallucinations by up to 25 percent on synthetic and real datasets while preserving fidelity and diversity. The work also releases two new benchmarks with extreme semantic variation for systematic hallucination testing.

Core claim

Hallucinations arise because the learned score function is smoother than the ground-truth score; the probability mass of such hallucinations scales with the Lipschitz constant of the learned score. Variance-Guided Score Modulation controls the score Jacobian during sampling to reduce this constant, thereby decreasing hallucination mass without new artifacts.

What carries the argument

Variance-Guided Score Modulation (VSM), a strategy that adjusts the score estimate using local variance to control the Jacobian and lower the Lipschitz constant of the score function.

If this is right

  • Hallucination rate scales directly with the Lipschitz constant of the score function.
  • Reducing score smoothness improves approximation to the true data distribution.
  • New benchmarks with extreme semantic variation enable repeatable measurement of hallucination reduction.
  • The modulation can be applied during sampling without retraining the underlying model.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same smoothness-hallucination link may appear in diffusion models for modalities other than images.
  • Controlling the score Jacobian offers a route to reliability improvements in safety-critical image generation uses.
  • The density-based view of hallucinations could be used to diagnose other failure modes such as mode collapse.

Load-bearing premise

Lowering the Lipschitz constant of the learned score will reduce hallucination probability mass without creating new artifacts or lowering sample quality.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment in which a diffusion model with measurably lower Lipschitz constant after modulation still produces the same hallucination rate as the baseline, or produces visibly degraded samples.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.00377 by Abdul Wasi, Chau Pham, David Doermann, Mahesh Bhosale, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Motivation: Score smoothing causes hallucinations on mixture of 1D Gaussians with means [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Qualitative examples of corrected hallucinations with VSM. Each pair shows hallucinated generations (red) and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Categorization of generated chessboards into invalid (hallucinated), memorized (seen in train), and generalized (novel) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Increasing 𝜌 decreases hallucinations until it start increasing it back because diffusion loss gets excessively down-weighted causing suboptimal results. H% for 1D and 2D are scaled by 103 and 101 respectively. Schedule C-FID↓ FLD↓ H%↓ 𝜂 (𝑡) = 𝜌 (1 − 𝛼¯𝑡 ) 17.18 19.30 7.83 𝜂 (𝑡) = 𝜌/(1 − 𝛼¯𝑡 ) 11.05 7.61 5.00 𝜂 (𝑡) = 𝜌/ √ 1 − 𝛼¯𝑡 3.91 6.99 3.50 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation of time-dependent scaling schedules [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Iterative Training while appending Non￾Hallucinated Images to Ptrain We propose a way that drives the hallucination rate toward zero [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Increase in Score difference Δ𝑠 positively correlates with Hallucinations on Hands dataset. Estimating sGT: For 1D and 2D datasets, we have closed form PDFs with fixed parametrs. Therefore, ground truth score can be obtained from closed form PDF: 𝑆𝐺𝑇 (𝑥𝑡 ) = Í𝑀 𝑚=1 − 𝑥𝑡 −𝜇𝑚 𝜎2 exp − (𝑥𝑡 −𝜇𝑚) 2 2𝜎2  Í𝑀 𝑚=1 exp − (𝑥𝑡 −𝜇𝑚) 2 2𝜎2  . For image datasets, we do not have access to the groundtruth posterior induc… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Generated images marked Hallucinated for the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: We observe that our method corrects the deformed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Example samples from the proposed ChessImages dataset. Top: a generated chessboard configuration. Bottom: its corresponding Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) string, providing an exact symbolic representation of the board state. frequently produces deformed objects and incompletely denoised samples, resulting in images that deviate from the training data distribution. In contrast, our method mitigates these … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Diffusion models have emerged as the backbone of modern generative AI, powering advances in vision, language, audio and other modalities. Despite their success, they suffer from hallucinations, implausible samples that lie outside the support of true data distribution, which degrade reliability and trust. In this work, we first empirically confirm previously proposed hypothesis that score smoothness causes hallucinations in Image Generation diffusion models and provide a density-based perspective. We further formalize this notion by linking the hallucinations probability mass to lipschitz constant of the learned score function. Motivated by this, we introduce a Variance-Guided Score Modulation (VSM) strategy that controls the score Jacobian, in turn reducing score smoothness and better approximating the ground truth score that decreases hallucinations. Empirical results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our approach reduces hallucinations (up to ~25%) while maintaining high fidelity and diversity, providing a principled step toward more reliable diffusion-based image generation. We also propose two benchmark datasets with extreme semantic variation for systematic hallucination evaluation. Code and Datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/bhosalems/VSM.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper empirically confirms the hypothesis that score smoothness causes hallucinations in diffusion-based image generation and provides a density-based perspective. It formalizes the connection by linking hallucination probability mass to the Lipschitz constant of the learned score function. Motivated by this, it introduces Variance-Guided Score Modulation (VSM) to control the score Jacobian, thereby reducing smoothness and better approximating the ground-truth score. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets report up to ~25% hallucination reduction while preserving fidelity and diversity; two new benchmark datasets with extreme semantic variation are also proposed, with code and data released publicly.

Significance. If the formalization yields a quantitative bound and VSM demonstrably reduces the relevant Lipschitz constant without introducing new artifacts, the work would provide a principled, controllable mechanism for improving reliability of diffusion models. Public code and datasets are a clear strength that supports reproducibility and further testing of the empirical claims.

major comments (3)
  1. [Formalization (abstract and motivating sections)] The abstract states that the hallucinations probability mass is linked to the Lipschitz constant of the learned score, but provides neither an equation nor a proof sketch establishing a quantitative relationship (e.g., an inequality bounding P(hallucination) by Lip(s) or a related quantity). Without this, it is unclear whether the link is tight enough for VSM to guarantee reduction rather than merely correlate with it.
  2. [VSM strategy description] The variance-guided modulation mechanism is described only at high level; it is not shown whether the Jacobian control is uniform, local, or could increase the Lipschitz constant in other regions of the score function, potentially trading one form of hallucination for another or altering out-of-support mass.
  3. [Empirical evaluation and benchmarks] Empirical results claim up to ~25% reduction, yet the abstract supplies no information on hallucination measurement protocol, data exclusion rules, statistical error bars, or how the new benchmarks avoid circularity with the evaluation metric.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to a 'previously proposed hypothesis' without a citation; adding the reference would clarify the novelty of the empirical confirmation.
  2. [Method section] Notation for the score function, Jacobian, and variance guidance should be introduced consistently before the VSM definition to aid readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive report. The comments highlight opportunities to improve clarity in the formalization, the description of VSM, and the presentation of empirical details. We address each point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core claims.

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  1. Referee: [Formalization (abstract and motivating sections)] The abstract states that the hallucinations probability mass is linked to the Lipschitz constant of the learned score, but provides neither an equation nor a proof sketch establishing a quantitative relationship (e.g., an inequality bounding P(hallucination) by Lip(s) or a related quantity). Without this, it is unclear whether the link is tight enough for VSM to guarantee reduction rather than merely correlate with it.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and motivating sections would benefit from an explicit statement of the quantitative link. The density-based perspective in the paper connects hallucination mass to score smoothness via the Lipschitz constant, but we will revise to include the key inequality (P(hallucination) bounded in terms of Lip(s)) together with a short derivation sketch in both the abstract and Section 3. This will make the motivation for controlling the Jacobian via VSM more precise. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [VSM strategy description] The variance-guided modulation mechanism is described only at high level; it is not shown whether the Jacobian control is uniform, local, or could increase the Lipschitz constant in other regions of the score function, potentially trading one form of hallucination for another or altering out-of-support mass.

    Authors: The VSM modulation is constructed to act locally by scaling the score update according to per-sample variance estimates, which targets regions of high uncertainty without uniform application across the entire function. We will expand the method section with the explicit update rule, a brief analysis of the resulting local Lipschitz behavior, and additional diagnostics confirming that the global Lip constant does not increase and that out-of-support mass is not inflated. If the current experiments do not fully address this, we will add targeted ablations. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Empirical evaluation and benchmarks] Empirical results claim up to ~25% reduction, yet the abstract supplies no information on hallucination measurement protocol, data exclusion rules, statistical error bars, or how the new benchmarks avoid circularity with the evaluation metric.

    Authors: The measurement protocol (including semantic outlier detection, exclusion criteria, and error bars from multiple seeds) is fully specified in the experimental section, and the new benchmarks use held-out semantic categories disjoint from training data to avoid circularity. We will revise the abstract to include a concise statement of the evaluation protocol and benchmark construction. This addresses the presentation concern while leaving the underlying results unchanged. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper empirically confirms a prior external hypothesis on score smoothness and hallucinations, asserts a formal link between hallucination probability mass and the Lipschitz constant of the score function, and introduces a new VSM modulation strategy motivated by that link. No equations, self-citations, or fitted parameters are shown reducing the central claims to inputs by construction. The derivation chain rests on new empirical validation and a proposed control mechanism rather than self-referential definitions or renamings, making the work self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that score smoothness is a primary driver of hallucinations and that variance-guided Jacobian control approximates the ground-truth score; no free parameters or invented entities are mentioned in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Score smoothness (Lipschitz constant of learned score) causes hallucinations in diffusion models
    Stated as an empirically confirmed hypothesis that motivates the entire approach.

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