diff --git a/gtsam/hybrid/HybridGaussianFactor.cpp b/gtsam/hybrid/HybridGaussianFactor.cpp
index cabe6defcc..13b26db6c3 100644
--- a/gtsam/hybrid/HybridGaussianFactor.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/hybrid/HybridGaussianFactor.cpp
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ namespace gtsam {
 
 /**
  * @brief Helper function to augment the [A|b] matrices in the factor components
- * with the normalizer values.
- * This is done by storing the normalizer value in
+ * with the additional scalar values.
+ * This is done by storing the value in
  * the `b` vector as an additional row.
  *
  * @param factors DecisionTree of GaussianFactors and arbitrary scalars.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ HybridGaussianFactor::Factors augment(
                           const HybridGaussianFactor::sharedFactor &gf) {
     auto jf = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<JacobianFactor>(gf);
     if (!jf) return gf;
-    // If the log_normalizer is 0, do nothing
+    // If the value is 0, do nothing
     if (values(assignment) == 0.0) return gf;
 
     GaussianFactorGraph gfg;
diff --git a/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridGaussianFactor.cpp b/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridGaussianFactor.cpp
index 246b8d4ce7..63b37e7d47 100644
--- a/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridGaussianFactor.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridGaussianFactor.cpp
@@ -771,7 +771,8 @@ static HybridGaussianFactorGraph CreateFactorGraph(
 
   // Create HybridGaussianFactor
   std::vector<GaussianFactorValuePair> factors{
-      {f0, ComputeLogNormalizer(model0)}, {f1, ComputeLogNormalizer(model1)}};
+      {f0, ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(model0)},
+      {f1, ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(model1)}};
   HybridGaussianFactor motionFactor({X(0), X(1)}, m1, factors);
 
   HybridGaussianFactorGraph hfg;
diff --git a/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridNonlinearFactorGraph.cpp b/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridNonlinearFactorGraph.cpp
index 133b165c1a..98bbd36d89 100644
--- a/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridNonlinearFactorGraph.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/hybrid/tests/testHybridNonlinearFactorGraph.cpp
@@ -869,7 +869,8 @@ static HybridNonlinearFactorGraph CreateFactorGraph(
 
   // Create HybridNonlinearFactor
   std::vector<NonlinearFactorValuePair> factors{
-      {f0, ComputeLogNormalizer(model0)}, {f1, ComputeLogNormalizer(model1)}};
+      {f0, ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(model0)},
+      {f1, ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(model1)}};
 
   HybridNonlinearFactor mixtureFactor({X(0), X(1)}, m1, factors);
 
diff --git a/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.cpp b/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.cpp
index a586d119b7..d6526fb9cc 100644
--- a/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.cpp
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ const RobustModel::shared_ptr &robust, const NoiseModel::shared_ptr noise){
 }  // namespace noiseModel
 
 /* *******************************************************************************/
-double ComputeLogNormalizer(
+double ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(
     const noiseModel::Gaussian::shared_ptr& noise_model) {
   // Since noise models are Gaussian, we can get the logDeterminant using
   // the same trick as in GaussianConditional
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ double ComputeLogNormalizer(
 
   size_t n = noise_model->dim();
   constexpr double log2pi = 1.8378770664093454835606594728112;
-  return n * log2pi + logDeterminantSigma;
+  return 0.5*(n * log2pi + logDeterminantSigma);
 }
 
 } // gtsam
diff --git a/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.h b/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.h
index ffc1a3ebcd..d2ceb24dbe 100644
--- a/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.h
+++ b/gtsam/linear/NoiseModel.h
@@ -757,10 +757,10 @@ namespace gtsam {
    * We compute this in the log-space for numerical accuracy.
    *
    * @param noise_model The Gaussian noise model
-   * whose normalizer we wish to compute.
+   * whose normalization constant we wish to compute.
    * @return double
    */
-  GTSAM_EXPORT double ComputeLogNormalizer(
+  GTSAM_EXPORT double ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(
       const noiseModel::Gaussian::shared_ptr& noise_model);
 
 } //\ namespace gtsam
diff --git a/gtsam/linear/tests/testNoiseModel.cpp b/gtsam/linear/tests/testNoiseModel.cpp
index 49874f901c..4248f5beba 100644
--- a/gtsam/linear/tests/testNoiseModel.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/linear/tests/testNoiseModel.cpp
@@ -807,11 +807,11 @@ TEST(NoiseModel, NonDiagonalGaussian)
   }
 }
 
-TEST(NoiseModel, ComputeLogNormalizer) {
+TEST(NoiseModel, ComputeLogNormalizerConstant) {
   // Very simple 1D noise model, which we can compute by hand.
   double sigma = 0.1;
   auto noise_model = Isotropic::Sigma(1, sigma);
-  double actual_value = ComputeLogNormalizer(noise_model);
+  double actual_value = ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(noise_model);
   // Compute log(|2πΣ|) by hand.
   // = log(2π) + log(Σ) (since it is 1D)
   constexpr double log2pi = 1.8378770664093454835606594728112;
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ TEST(NoiseModel, ComputeLogNormalizer) {
   // Similar situation in the 3D case
   size_t n = 3;
   auto noise_model2 = Isotropic::Sigma(n, sigma);
-  double actual_value2 = ComputeLogNormalizer(noise_model2);
+  double actual_value2 = ComputeLogNormalizerConstant(noise_model2);
   // We multiply by 3 due to the determinant
   double expected_value2 = n * (log2pi + log(sigma * sigma));
   EXPECT_DOUBLES_EQUAL(expected_value2, actual_value2, 1e-9);