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SCoNE: Selective Context-aware Neuron Editing for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is highly sensitive to retrieval noise: when retrieved documents mix informative and irrelevant context, LLMs are easily distracted, leading to hallucinations. To overcome this, we propose SCoNE (Selective Context-aware Neuron Editing), a training-free model editing approach that improves retrieval noise robustness by selectively strengthening context-aware FFN neurons that are identified by both high attribution and high cross-input variability. SCoNE requires only a small number of mining samples, no fine-tuning, and no inference-time overhead. Across var

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