HIVE: Hidden-Evidence Verification for Hallucination Detection in Diffusion Large Language Models

Abstract:Diffusion large language models generate text through iterative denoising, exposing hidden trajectories that may contain reliability signals beyond the final output. We propose HIVE, which compresses trajectory hidden states, selects informative step-layer evidence, and conditions a verifier through continuous prefix embeddings to produce a hallucination score and structured diagnostics. Across two D-LLMs and three QA benchmarks, HIVE outperforms eight established baselines and a verifier-backbone-matched text-only control in all six settings. Relative to text-only verification, hidden-evidence conditioning improves AUROC by 1.73--4.60 points and AUPRC by 1.10--3.62 points, with average gains of 3.15 and 2.28 points, respectively. Ablations, evidence interventions, and cross-dataset transfer further support the complementary value of fine-grained hidden trajectory evidence.

Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2604.26139 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2604.26139v3 [cs.CL] for this version)

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