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Large Language Models (LLMs) store an extensive amount of factual knowledge obtained from vast collections of text. To effectively utilize these models for downstream tasks, it is crucial to have reliable methods for measuring their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Pouya Pezeshkpour

Efficiently editing knowledge stored in large language models (LLMs) enables model updates without large-scale training. One possible solution is Locate-and-Edit (L\&E), allowing simultaneous modifications of a massive number of facts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Weizhi Fei , Hao Shi , Jing Xu , Jingchen Peng , Jiazheng Li , Jingzhao Zhang , Bo Bai , Wei Han , Zhenyuan Chen , Xueyan Niu

Knowledge editing aims to change language models' performance on several special cases (i.e., editing scope) by infusing the corresponding expected knowledge into them. With the recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jiaan Wang , Yunlong Liang , Zengkui Sun , Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Fandong Meng

Knowledge Base, represents facts about the world, often in some form of subsumption ontology, rather than implicitly, embedded in procedural code, the way a conventional computer program does. While there is a rapid growth in knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sai Sharath Japa , Rekabdar Banafsheh

Contextual word representations, typically trained on unstructured, unlabeled text, do not contain any explicit grounding to real world entities and are often unable to remember facts about those entities. We propose a general method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Matthew E. Peters , Mark Neumann , Robert L. Logan , Roy Schwartz , Vidur Joshi , Sameer Singh , Noah A. Smith

Recent progress in pretraining language models on large textual corpora led to a surge of improvements for downstream NLP tasks. Whilst learning linguistic knowledge, these models may also be storing relational knowledge present in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Fabio Petroni , Tim Rocktäschel , Patrick Lewis , Anton Bakhtin , Yuxiang Wu , Alexander H. Miller , Sebastian Riedel

It is challenging to control the quality of online information due to the lack of supervision over all the information posted online. Manual checking is almost impossible given the vast number of posts made on online media and how quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Rini Anggrainingsih , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Instruction-based text editing is increasingly critical for real-world applications such as code editors (e.g., Cursor), but Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to struggle with this task. Unlike free-form generation, editing requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yiming Zeng , Jinghan Cao , Zexin Li , Wanhao Yu , Zhankai Ye , Dawei Xiang , Ting Hua , Xin Liu , Shangqian Gao , Tingting Yu

Large language models (LLMs) store vast amounts of knowledge, which often requires updates to correct factual errors, incorporate newly acquired information, or adapt model behavior. Model editing methods have emerged as efficient solutions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Fufang Wen , Shichang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge across diverse domains such as science, history, and geography encountered during generative pre-training. However, due to their stochasticity, it is difficult to predict what LLMs have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kartik Sharma , Yiqiao Jin , Rakshit Trivedi , Srijan Kumar

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities in factual question answering, yet they sometimes provide incorrect responses. To address this issue, knowledge editing techniques have emerged as effective methods for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhenning Chen , Hanbei Zhan , Yanwei Huang , Xin Wu , Dazhen Deng , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

As the cost associated with fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to rise, recent research efforts have pivoted towards developing methodologies to edit implicit knowledge embedded within LLMs. Yet, there's still a dark cloud…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhoubo Li , Ningyu Zhang , Yunzhi Yao , Mengru Wang , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

Knowledge Editing, which efficiently modifies the knowledge in large language models, has gathered great attention. Current benchmarks primarily use multi-hop question answering to assess and analyze newly injected or updated knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Keyuan Cheng , Zijian Kan , Zhixian He , Zhuoran Zhang , Muhammad Asif Ali , Ke Xu , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Lifelong learning enables large language models (LLMs) to adapt to evolving information by continually updating their internal knowledge. An ideal system should support efficient, wide-ranging updates while preserving existing capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaojie Gu , Ziying Huang , Jia-Chen Gu , Kai Zhang

As the modern tool of choice for question answering, large language models (LLMs) are expected to deliver answers with up-to-date knowledge. To achieve such ideal question-answering systems, locating and then editing outdated knowledge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Baolong Bi , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Lingrui Mei , Hongcheng Gao , Junfeng Fang , Xueqi Cheng

Lifelong model editing (LME) aims to sequentially rectify outdated or inaccurate knowledge in deployed LLMs while minimizing side effects on unrelated inputs. However, existing approaches typically apply parameter perturbations to a static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yangfan Wang , Tianyang Sun , Chen Tang , Jie Liu , Wei Cai , Jingchi Jiang

Knowledge editing aims to modify outdated knowledge in language models efficiently while retaining their original capabilities. Mainstream datasets for knowledge editing are predominantly static and fail to keep in pace with the evolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Chenming Tang , Yutong Yang , Kexue Wang , Yunfang Wu

Knowledge editing aims to efficiently correct factual errors in language models. Widely used locate-then-edit methods update an MLP layer by adjusting its weights to change the mapping between the layer's input vector (key) and output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haewon Park , Sangwoo Kim , Yohan Jo

Knowledge editing has been proposed as an effective method for updating and correcting the internal knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing editing methods often struggle with complex tasks, such as multi-hop reasoning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Mengqi Zhang , Xiaotian Ye , Qiang Liu , Pengjie Ren , Shu Wu , Zhumin Chen

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast world knowledge but struggle to stay up-to-date, often leading to errors and hallucinations. Knowledge editing offers an efficient alternative to retraining, enabling targeted modifications by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Weitao Ma , Xiyuan Du , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yichong Huang , Huiyi Zhang , Xiaoliang Yang , Baohang Li , Xiachong Feng , Ting Liu , Bing Qin