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EAMET: Robust Massive Model Editing via Embedding Alignment Optimization

Computation and Language 2026-02-25 v4

Abstract

Model editing techniques are essential for efficiently updating knowledge in large language models (LLMs). However, the effectiveness of existing approaches degrades in massive editing scenarios, particularly when evaluated with practical metrics. Their robustness is also limited in context-rich settings or when editing multiple facts of the same subject simultaneously. We attribute these failures to the embedding misalignment among knowledge items, which undermines editing reliability at scale. To address this, we propose EAMET (Embedding Alignment Model Editing in Transformers), which addresses this issue by aligning the space of key and residual embeddings. Extensive experiments across six LLMs and three datasets demonstrate that EAMET consistently outperforms existing methods, achieving about 90\% editing efficacy when editing 10k facts. Codes and datasets are publicly available at https://ybdai7.github.io/eamet-page/.

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@article{arxiv.2505.11876,
  title  = {EAMET: Robust Massive Model Editing via Embedding Alignment Optimization},
  author = {Yanbo Dai and Zhenlan Ji and Zongjie Li and Shuai Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11876},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

This paper was accepted to ICLR 2026

R2 v1 2026-06-28T23:37:09.876Z