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Reliability Challenges in Diffusion Vision-Language Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Diffusion-based Large Vision-Language Models (dLVLMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) LVLMs, offering advantages in parallel decoding, bidirectional context, and controllable generation. Despite rapid progress, their reliability properties remain largely uncharacterized. We present the first systematic reliability evaluation of hallucination and bias in dLVLMs, benchmarking six diffusion models against competitive AR baselines across four dimensions. Our key findings are: (1) dLVLMs reverse the yes-bias of AR models in binary visual queries; (2) they ac

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