LLM-CAS: Dynamic Neuron Perturbation for Real-Time Hallucination Correction

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) often generate hallucinated content lacking factual or contextual grounding, hindering their reliability in critical applications. Traditional methods like supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback are data-intensive and computationally expensive, while static parameter editing struggles with context-dependent errors and catastrophic forgetting. To overcome these limitations, we introduce LLM-CAS, a framework that formulates real-time hallucination correction as a hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) problem. LLM-CAS trains an agent to learn a sophisticated policy, dynamically selecting optimal, temporary neuron perturbations during inference based on the immediate context. This learned, policy-driven approach provides greater adaptability than prior dynamic methods that rely on heuristic or pre-defined adjustments. As a result, LLM-CAS achieves significant performance gains across various LLMs, improving accuracy by 10.98 percentage points on StoryCloze, 2.71 points on TriviaQA, and 2.06 points on TruthfulQA's MC1 score, thereby outperforming static methods like ITI and CAA, as well as the dynamic SADI framework. This context-aware, efficient approach promises enhanced reliability for LLMs in high-stakes domains, with future potential for multimodal extensions.