Mitigating Hallucinations in LM-Based TTS Models via Distribution Alignment Using GFlowNets

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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Chenlin, Fang, Minghui, Zhang, Patrick, Zhou, Wei, Gao, Jie, Han, Jiqing
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author Liu, Chenlin
Fang, Minghui
Zhang, Patrick
Zhou, Wei
Gao, Jie
Han, Jiqing
author_facet Liu, Chenlin
Fang, Minghui
Zhang, Patrick
Zhou, Wei
Gao, Jie
Han, Jiqing
contents Language Model (LM)-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems often generate hallucinated speech that deviates from input text. Existing mitigation strategies either demand excessive training resources or introduce significant inference latency. In this paper, we propose GFlOwNet-guided distribution AlignmenT (GOAT) for LM-based TTS, a post-training framework that mitigates hallucinations without relying on massive resources or inference cost. Specifically, we first conduct an uncertainty analysis, revealing a strong positive correlation between hallucination and model uncertainty. Based on this, we reformulate TTS generation as a trajectory flow optimization problem and introduce an enhanced Subtrajectory Balance objective together with a sharpened internal reward as target distribution. We further integrate reward temperature decay and learning rate optimization for stability and performance balance. Extensive experiments show that GOAT reduce over 50% character error rates on challenging test cases and lowering uncertainty by up to 58%, demonstrating its strong generalization ability and effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Mitigating Hallucinations in LM-Based TTS Models via Distribution Alignment Using GFlowNets
Liu, Chenlin
Fang, Minghui
Zhang, Patrick
Zhou, Wei
Gao, Jie
Han, Jiqing
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Language Model (LM)-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems often generate hallucinated speech that deviates from input text. Existing mitigation strategies either demand excessive training resources or introduce significant inference latency. In this paper, we propose GFlOwNet-guided distribution AlignmenT (GOAT) for LM-based TTS, a post-training framework that mitigates hallucinations without relying on massive resources or inference cost. Specifically, we first conduct an uncertainty analysis, revealing a strong positive correlation between hallucination and model uncertainty. Based on this, we reformulate TTS generation as a trajectory flow optimization problem and introduce an enhanced Subtrajectory Balance objective together with a sharpened internal reward as target distribution. We further integrate reward temperature decay and learning rate optimization for stability and performance balance. Extensive experiments show that GOAT reduce over 50% character error rates on challenging test cases and lowering uncertainty by up to 58%, demonstrating its strong generalization ability and effectiveness.
title Mitigating Hallucinations in LM-Based TTS Models via Distribution Alignment Using GFlowNets
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15442