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3D-VCD: Hallucination Mitigation in 3D-LLM Embodied Agents through Visual Contrastive Decoding

Makanjuola Ogunleye , Eman Abdelrahman , Ismini Lourentzou

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keywords hallucination mitigation3D scene graphsembodied agentscontrastive decodingmultimodal LLMsgrounded reasoninginference-time methods

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The pith

Contrastive decoding on perturbed 3D scene graphs mitigates hallucinations in embodied agents.

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

Large multimodal models acting as reasoning cores for agents in 3D environments frequently generate hallucinations about object presence, spatial layouts, and geometry, which can lead to unsafe actions. Existing inference-time hallucination fixes target 2D vision-language tasks and do not address the structured spatial failures common in 3D embodied reasoning. The paper presents 3D-VCD, which builds a contrastive pair by applying semantic substitutions and geometric corruptions to object-centric 3D scene graphs, then suppresses tokens whose predictions remain unchanged under the distortion and are therefore likely language-prior driven. Evaluation on the 3D-POPE and HEAL benchmarks shows consistent gains in grounded reasoning with no retraining required. This establishes inference-time contrastive decoding over structured 3D representations as a practical route to more reliable embodied intelligence.

Core claim

3D-VCD constructs a distorted 3D scene graph through category substitutions and coordinate or extent corruptions, then contrasts model predictions under the original and perturbed contexts to suppress tokens insensitive to the grounded 3D evidence and therefore driven by language priors, improving performance on 3D-POPE and HEAL without retraining.

What carries the argument

Visual contrastive decoding applied to structured 3D scene graphs, where the difference between original and semantically or geometrically perturbed representations identifies and downweights ungrounded tokens.

If this is right

Embodied agents produce fewer unsafe decisions based on invented objects or incorrect spatial relations.
Existing 3D-LLM agents gain reliability immediately without retraining or new data collection.
The method targets hallucinations arising specifically from object presence, spatial layout, and geometric grounding.
Contrastive decoding extends effectively from 2D pixel settings to structured 3D object-centric representations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same perturbation-plus-contrast pattern could be tested on other structured 3D tasks such as path planning if the core suppression mechanism generalizes.
Making the perturbations adaptive to real-time sensor noise might extend the approach from static benchmarks to dynamic physical environments.
Deployment on physical robots would reveal whether the method reduces collision risk when language priors conflict with live 3D observations.

Load-bearing premise

Semantic category substitutions and geometric coordinate or extent corruptions produce a contrast that reliably suppresses only language-prior-driven tokens while preserving tokens grounded in the original 3D evidence.

What would settle it

On the 3D-POPE benchmark, 3D-VCD yields no increase in accuracy for object-presence hallucination detection relative to standard decoding.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.08645 by Eman Abdelrahman, Ismini Lourentzou, Makanjuola Ogunleye.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Split-wise results on 3D-POPE benchmark. Each split (Random, Popular, Adversarial) shows Precision, F1, and Accuracy. Our 3D-VCD training-free hallucination mitigation method consistently improves precision, F1, and accuracy while substantially reducing over-affirmation rates across all splits. information, such as scene graphs, point clouds, or volumetric features, significantly improves spatial groundi… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: 3D-VCD Overview. Given 3D environment observations, 3D-VCD builds a structured 3D scene graph (G) encoding object categories, centroids, and extents, and injects controlled semantic and geometric perturbations to obtain a distorted version of the environment (Gˆ). The MLLM agent processes both contexts in parallel, given the textual query (x). 3D-VCD contrastively fuses their logits to reveal and suppress … view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Ablation on distortion types for VCD in 3D-POPE (F1). x-axis shows distortion tags (ascending overall F1) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Qualitative comparison on 3D-POPE. The baseline incorrectly predicts the absence of a dining table, missing the true table object. In contrast, 3D-VCD correctly grounds and identifies the dining table by aligning contrastive decoding with the scene graph. Semantic-DropModifier (SemDropMod) removes descriptive modifiers from compound object names (e.g., “kitchen cabinet” → “cabinet”), probing the model’s s… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative comparison on HEAL benchmark. For the task brushing lint off clothing, the baseline Qwen-14BInstruct model hallucinates a nonexistent microwave.n.01 1 in its symbolic goal prediction. In contrast, 3D-VCD produces clean symbolic goals with no hallucinated objects, correctly grounding all sweaters on the bed and removing dust-related states as required by the instruction. The right panel shows t… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: 3D-VCD inference time as a function of scene complexity (number of objects). 3D changes, 3D-VCD promotes grounded reasoning over superficial correlations, thereby reducing hallucination and improving the reliability of 3D embodied agents. 4.5. Qualitative Results Figures 4 and 5 present two qualitative examples illustrating how 3D-VCD improves factual grounding compared to the baseline. The first example… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Qualitative comparison on 3D-POPE. The baseline 3D-LLM hallucinates the presence of a bed. In contrast, 3D-VCD correctly answers No by contrasting logits under perturbed 3D scene graphs, effectively suppressing hallucinated object activations. The right panel shows the object-level scene segmentation for reference [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Qualitative comparison on 3D-POPE. The baseline 3D-LLM hallucinates a desk object and incorrectly predicts its presence. In contrast, 3D-VCD correctly determines that no desk exists by suppressing spurious category matches through contrastive decoding aligned with the object-centric scene graph. Model Prompt: [INST] <</SYS>> You are a helpful language and vision assistant that helps human reason about a 3D… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: 3D-VCD model input and output. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗

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Large multimodal models are increasingly used as the reasoning core of embodied agents operating in 3D environments, yet they remain prone to hallucinations that can produce unsafe and ungrounded decisions. Existing inference-time hallucination mitigation methods largely target 2D vision-language settings and do not transfer to embodied 3D reasoning, where failures arise from object presence, spatial layout, and geometric grounding rather than pixel-level inconsistencies. We introduce 3D-VCD, the first inference-time visual contrastive decoding framework for hallucination mitigation in 3D embodied agents. 3D-VCD constructs a distorted 3D scene graph by applying semantic and geometric perturbations to object-centric representations, such as category substitutions and coordinate or extent corruption. By contrasting predictions under the original and distorted 3D contexts, our method suppresses tokens that are insensitive to grounded scene evidence and are therefore likely driven by language priors. We evaluate 3D-VCD on the 3D-POPE and HEAL benchmarks and show that it consistently improves grounded reasoning without any retraining, establishing inference-time contrastive decoding over structured 3D representations as an effective and practical route to more reliable embodied intelligence.

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3D-VCD adapts 2D-style contrastive decoding to 3D scene graphs for embodied agents, which is a logical extension, but the abstract gives no numbers or ablations so the practical gain is still unproven.

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The main takeaway is that this paper moves contrastive decoding from 2D images to structured 3D scene graphs. It builds a distorted version of the graph through category swaps and coordinate or size changes, then contrasts the model's logits on the clean versus distorted input to down-weight tokens that ignore the actual 3D evidence. That targets the right failure modes for embodied agents, where hallucinations often involve missing objects or wrong spatial relations rather than pixel noise. The inference-time setup with no retraining is also a practical choice for robotics or simulation work. The paper does a clean job explaining why prior 2D methods fall short here and why object-centric graphs are a better fit. The idea itself is straightforward and directly addresses a deployment barrier. The soft spots are in the evidence. The abstract states that 3D-VCD improves grounded reasoning on 3D-POPE and HEAL, yet it supplies no scores, no baseline comparisons, and no ablation on how strong the perturbations should be or what happens when a token is partly grounded and partly prior-driven. The key assumption—that semantic and geometric corruptions cleanly separate language priors from valid 3D signals—needs those checks, because coordinate noise could easily blunt correct spatial tokens too. Without the full experimental section it is hard to judge effect size or failure modes. This is for researchers working on reliable 3D vision-language models in embodied settings who want a lightweight guardrail. Anyone already using scene graphs or studying hallucination mitigation would get something out of the framework, even if they end up modifying the contrast step. It deserves a serious referee because the problem is timely and the approach is clearly scoped. I would send it out for review so the experiments can be examined directly.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes 3D-VCD, the first inference-time visual contrastive decoding framework for hallucination mitigation in 3D-LLM embodied agents. It constructs a distorted 3D scene graph via semantic category substitutions and geometric perturbations (coordinate or extent corruption) to the object-centric representations, then contrasts model predictions under the original versus distorted 3D contexts to suppress tokens insensitive to grounded scene evidence and thus likely driven by language priors. The method is evaluated on the 3D-POPE and HEAL benchmarks and claimed to consistently improve grounded reasoning without any retraining.

Significance. If the results hold, this provides a practical, training-free approach to improving reliability and safety of embodied agents operating in 3D environments, where hallucinations can lead to unsafe decisions. It extends contrastive decoding techniques from 2D vision-language models to structured 3D scene graphs, addressing a gap in existing inference-time methods. The absence of retraining is a clear strength for real-world deployment in robotics and embodied AI.

major comments (2)

[§3] §3 (method description): The core assumption that semantic category substitutions and geometric coordinate/extent corruptions isolate language-prior signals while leaving all genuine 3D-grounded evidence intact is load-bearing for the central claim, yet no ablations on perturbation strength, no derivation of the contrast operation, and no analysis of failure modes for partially language-driven tokens (common in spatial reasoning) are provided.
[§4] §4 (experiments): The abstract states that 3D-VCD improves performance on 3D-POPE and HEAL, but the manuscript provides no quantitative results, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or details on how perturbations are applied during evaluation, making it impossible to verify whether the central claim is supported by the data.

minor comments (2)

[§3] The contrast operation could be formalized with an equation to improve precision and reproducibility.
[Abstract] The abstract would benefit from including the magnitude of reported improvements to better convey the empirical contribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive review. The comments highlight important areas where additional justification and detail will strengthen the manuscript. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that directly respond to the concerns raised.

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Referee: [§3] §3 (method description): The core assumption that semantic category substitutions and geometric coordinate/extent corruptions isolate language-prior signals while leaving all genuine 3D-grounded evidence intact is load-bearing for the central claim, yet no ablations on perturbation strength, no derivation of the contrast operation, and no analysis of failure modes for partially language-driven tokens (common in spatial reasoning) are provided.

Authors: We agree that the core assumption requires stronger empirical and theoretical support. In the revised manuscript we will add: (1) ablations varying perturbation strength (substitution rate from 0.1–0.5 and geometric noise magnitude), (2) a short derivation of the contrastive term motivated by the difference in conditional token probabilities under grounded versus ungrounded contexts, and (3) a failure-mode analysis that isolates tokens whose predictions remain partially language-driven even after contrast (e.g., in ambiguous spatial relations). These additions will be placed in §3 and a new appendix. revision: yes
Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): The abstract states that 3D-VCD improves performance on 3D-POPE and HEAL, but the manuscript provides no quantitative results, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or details on how perturbations are applied during evaluation, making it impossible to verify whether the central claim is supported by the data.

Authors: The current draft inadvertently omitted the full experimental section. The revised manuscript will include complete quantitative tables reporting accuracy and hallucination-rate improvements on both 3D-POPE and HEAL, comparisons against standard decoding and existing inference-time baselines, ablation tables for each perturbation type, and explicit parameter settings (e.g., corruption probabilities and coordinate noise variance) used at evaluation time. All numbers and protocols will be described in §4 with corresponding figures. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: procedural inference-time algorithm with external benchmark evaluation

full rationale

The paper describes 3D-VCD as an inference-time procedure that applies semantic and geometric perturbations to construct a distorted 3D scene graph, then contrasts logits from original versus distorted contexts to suppress language-prior tokens. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations are presented that reduce the claimed improvement to a self-referential quantity or input by construction. The central claims rest on evaluation against the independent 3D-POPE and HEAL benchmarks rather than any internal fit or self-citation chain. This is a standard non-circular algorithmic contribution.

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Review based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The method implicitly assumes that the chosen perturbations isolate grounding failures without introducing new artifacts, but this is not formalized.

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