Music Hallucination in Audio-Language Models: A Hierarchical Formulation and Empirical Study

arXiv:2609.20195 · cs.SD, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-24

Updated: 2026-07-24

Comments: Accepted at ACM MM 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Mitigation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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