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arxiv: 2606.02535 · v1 · pith:L57TNDPYnew · submitted 2026-06-01 · 💻 cs.CV

LL-Bench: Rethinking Low-Level Vision Evaluation in the Era of Large-Scale Generative Models

Lu Liu , Huiyu Duan , Chenxin Zhu , Jintong Lu , Haoyun Jiang , Liu Yang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai
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keywords low-level visionimage restorationgenerative modelsbenchmarkimage quality assessmenthallucination detectionmultimodal large language models
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The pith

LL-Bench shows generative models add hallucinations during image restoration while conventional methods better preserve accurate details.

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

The paper builds LL-Bench from 2,469 real degraded images across 16 tasks and 28,919 restored outputs from 10 generative and 21 conventional models. Human experts supply 152,020 pairwise preferences and 28,334 quality scores that expose where generative models introduce false details not present in the input. Existing image quality metrics show large mismatches with these human ratings. The authors introduce LL-Score, an evaluator built on multimodal large language models, that jointly measures restoration fidelity and hallucination presence. Experiments indicate LL-Score aligns more closely with people than prior metrics and can function as a reward signal when training generative models on low-level tasks.

Core claim

LL-Bench supplies the first large-scale human-annotated dataset for low-level vision evaluation of generative models and reveals their systematic failure modes, including hallucination of nonexistent content. LL-Score, an MLLM-based evaluator, captures both restoration quality and hallucination existence more reliably than prior image quality assessment metrics and doubles as a reward model for training.

What carries the argument

LL-Score, an MLLM-based evaluator that jointly scores restoration quality and detects hallucination existence.

If this is right

  • Generative models require additional constraints to avoid introducing false content in pixel-precise restoration tasks.
  • Standard image quality assessment metrics cannot be trusted for ranking generative outputs on low-level vision problems.
  • LL-Score can be inserted directly into reinforcement learning loops to train generative models that produce fewer hallucinations.
  • Future low-level benchmarks must separately measure hallucination in addition to overall visual quality.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Hybrid systems that combine generative priors with conventional restoration priors may close the observed performance gap.
  • The same MLLM evaluation approach could transfer to video restoration or other domains where detail accuracy matters.
  • Scaling laws for generative models may not hold for tasks that demand strict fidelity to input pixels.

Load-bearing premise

The 152,020 expert pairwise preferences and 28,334 quality scores form reliable, unbiased ground truth for restoration quality and hallucination detection.

What would settle it

A second independent collection of expert annotations on the identical set of restored images that produces substantially different preference orderings or quality score distributions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.02535 by Chenxin Zhu, Guangtao Zhai, Haoyun Jiang, Huiyu Duan, Jintong Lu, Liu Yang, Lu Liu, Qiang Hu, Xiaoyun Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Data Construction Pipeline of LL-Bench, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating LGMs in low-level vision tasks. (a) LL-Bench consists of 16 tasks covering diverse real-world degraded images. (b) 10 LGMs, along with 21 conventional restoration models are deployed for restored image generation. (c) Expert-level human annotations are collected to provide both quality ranking and hallucination existence detecti… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Averaged B-T scores of 10 large-scale generative models across 16 LL-Bench tasks. Main Process. We adopt a comparative evaluation methodology where participants are presented with the degraded input image alongside all restored outputs in a side-by-side layout in trial. For each image trial, annotators are asked to evaluate the restored outputs from two perspectives: 1) Overall restoration quality: annotat… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Box plots of averaged ranks across 16 LL-Bench tasks for large-scale generative models (LGMs), specialists, and all-in-one models. Diamonds indicate the per-dataset mean rank. Analysis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of averaged hallucina￾tion ratio (%) (left) and B-T scores(right). Analysis: Our findings reveal that LGMs exhibit strong low-level vision capability and generalization across tasks, but fall short in fidelity and occasionally suffer from hallucination. These findings point to instruction-based editing with explicit fidelity con￾straints as a promising direction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fi… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: (a) Overview of the LL-Score architecture. LL-Score can evaluate overall restoration quality, and predict hallucination with the input of restored image and degraded image pairs. (b) LL-Score as Reward Modeling. LL-Score can act as reward signal in reinforcing LGMs. head Qω and the hallucination head Hϕ, to produce the quality score sq and hallucination probability ph. The whole process can be written as: … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Effect of LL-Score as reward model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Large-scale generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across image generation and editing tasks. However, their performance in low-level vision tasks, which require pixel-wise control, remains insufficiently studied. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{LL-Bench}, a comprehensive \textbf{Benchmark} for evaluating the capabilities of large-scale generative models on \textbf{L}ow-\textbf{L}evel vision tasks. The benchmark comprises 2,469 real-world degraded images covering 16 low-level degradation tasks, and 28,919 restored images produced by 10 state-of-the-art large-scale generative models and 21 conventional restoration models, which are annotated with 152,020 expert-level pairwise human preferences and 28,334 quality scores. Built upon LL-Bench, we present a systematic diagnosis that reveals the performance boundaries and unique failure modes of large-scale generative models across diverse low-level vision tasks, compared with conventional representative restoration approaches. Moreover, we investigate the effectiveness of current quality evaluation metrics on LL-Bench, which exhibit significant discrepancy with human ratings. To better align restored-image quality assessment with human preferences, we further propose \textbf{LL-Score}, an MLLM-based evaluator that captures both restoration quality and hallucination existence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LL-score not only outperforms existing image quality assessment metrics, but also serves as a promising reward model for training generative models on low-level vision tasks.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces LL-Bench, a benchmark comprising 2,469 real-world degraded images across 16 low-level tasks and 28,919 restored images generated by 10 large-scale generative models plus 21 conventional restorers. These are annotated with 152,020 expert pairwise human preferences and 28,334 quality scores. The work diagnoses performance boundaries and failure modes (including hallucinations) of generative models versus conventional approaches, shows that existing IQA metrics disagree with human ratings, and proposes LL-Score, an MLLM-based evaluator that jointly assesses restoration quality and hallucination presence, claiming superior alignment with humans and utility as a reward model for training.

Significance. If the human annotations are shown to be reliable, LL-Bench would provide a valuable large-scale resource for evaluating low-level vision capabilities of generative models, and LL-Score could offer a practical human-aligned alternative to existing IQA metrics with additional utility in reward modeling. The scale of the collected preferences and the explicit inclusion of hallucination detection are concrete strengths that go beyond typical IQA benchmarks.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] Human annotation protocol (Section 3.2): The manuscript states that 152,020 pairwise preferences and 28,334 quality scores were collected from experts but supplies no information on inter-rater agreement, statistical testing, data splits, annotation guidelines for distinguishing hallucinations from artifacts, or bias controls. This is load-bearing because every claim that LL-Score outperforms existing IQA metrics and functions as a reward model rests on these annotations constituting reliable, unbiased ground truth.
  2. [§5] LL-Score evaluation experiments (Section 5): The reported superiority of LL-Score is presented without specifying the exact correlation coefficients (PLCC/SRCC/KRCC), whether evaluation was performed on held-out images never seen during any MLLM adaptation, or the precise prompting strategy used to elicit quality and hallucination scores. These omissions prevent verification that the alignment is not an artifact of the same data used to construct the benchmark.
  3. [§6] Reward-model experiments (Section 6): The claim that LL-Score is a "promising reward model" is supported only by qualitative statements; no quantitative results (e.g., improvement in downstream restoration metrics, comparison against standard reward baselines, or statistical significance) are provided to substantiate the utility for training generative models.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract lists 28,919 restored images while the introduction states 28,919; ensure exact consistency with the tables that enumerate per-model outputs.
  2. [§3.1] Clarify whether the 2,469 degraded images are partitioned into training/validation/test splits for the LL-Score experiments or whether all annotations are used for both benchmark construction and metric validation.
  3. [Figure 4] Figure captions for the qualitative examples should explicitly label which images contain hallucinations versus restoration artifacts according to the human guidelines.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. We address each major point below and will incorporate revisions to improve the clarity and completeness of the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§3.2] Human annotation protocol (Section 3.2): The manuscript states that 152,020 pairwise preferences and 28,334 quality scores were collected from experts but supplies no information on inter-rater agreement, statistical testing, data splits, annotation guidelines for distinguishing hallucinations from artifacts, or bias controls. This is load-bearing because every claim that LL-Score outperforms existing IQA metrics and functions as a reward model rests on these annotations constituting reliable, unbiased ground truth.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript lacks sufficient detail on the annotation protocol. In the revised version, we will add inter-rater agreement metrics (e.g., Fleiss' kappa computed across experts for pairwise preferences), descriptions of statistical testing, explicit data splits, expanded annotation guidelines that define criteria for distinguishing hallucinations from other artifacts, and bias mitigation steps such as randomized image ordering and expert screening procedures. These additions will directly support the reliability of the annotations as ground truth. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] LL-Score evaluation experiments (Section 5): The reported superiority of LL-Score is presented without specifying the exact correlation coefficients (PLCC/SRCC/KRCC), whether evaluation was performed on held-out images never seen during any MLLM adaptation, or the precise prompting strategy used to elicit quality and hallucination scores. These omissions prevent verification that the alignment is not an artifact of the same data used to construct the benchmark.

    Authors: We will revise Section 5 to explicitly report the PLCC, SRCC, and KRCC values. All correlation evaluations were performed on held-out images that were never used for MLLM adaptation or prompt design. The revised manuscript will also include the exact prompting templates employed for joint quality and hallucination scoring. These clarifications will enable full verification that the reported gains reflect genuine alignment rather than data overlap. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§6] Reward-model experiments (Section 6): The claim that LL-Score is a "promising reward model" is supported only by qualitative statements; no quantitative results (e.g., improvement in downstream restoration metrics, comparison against standard reward baselines, or statistical significance) are provided to substantiate the utility for training generative models.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current presentation of the reward-model experiments is limited to qualitative observations. In the revision, we will augment Section 6 with quantitative results, including measured improvements in downstream low-level restoration metrics when LL-Score is used as a reward versus standard baselines, direct comparisons against alternative reward models, and statistical significance testing. This will provide concrete evidence supporting the utility claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical benchmark construction and evaluator validation

full rationale

The paper constructs LL-Bench from real-world images, generates restorations, and collects independent human pairwise preferences (152,020) and quality scores (28,334) as ground truth. LL-Score is proposed as an MLLM-based evaluator and validated empirically by direct comparison against existing IQA metrics on this held-out annotation set. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. The superiority claims rest on external human judgments rather than reducing to quantities defined or fitted from the same inputs by construction. This is standard empirical benchmark work and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

Abstract-only review limits visibility into internal parameters; the central claims rest on the assumption that collected human preferences are valid ground truth and that the MLLM can be prompted to detect hallucinations reliably.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Expert pairwise human preferences reliably capture restoration quality and hallucination presence across diverse degradation types.
    Benchmark and LL-Score performance claims depend directly on the 152,020 annotations being treated as authoritative labels.
invented entities (2)
  • LL-Bench no independent evidence
    purpose: Comprehensive benchmark dataset of degraded and restored images with human annotations for low-level vision evaluation.
    Newly introduced collection of 2,469 images and associated annotations.
  • LL-Score no independent evidence
    purpose: MLLM-based evaluator that jointly assesses restoration quality and hallucination.
    Newly proposed metric claimed to outperform prior IQA methods.

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