2026
From Flat Facts to Sharp Hallucinations: Detecting Stubborn Errors via Gradient Sensitivity
ICML 2026poster
Traditional hallucination detection fails on "Stubborn Hallucinations"—errors where LLMs are confidently wrong. We propose a geometric solution: Embedding-Perturbed Gradient Sensitivity (EPGS). We hypothesize that while robust facts reside in flat minima, stubborn hallucinations sit in sharp minima,…