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Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated information, necessitating efficient and precise knowledge updates. Current model editing methods, however, struggle with long-form knowledge in diverse formats, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Houcheng Jiang , Junfeng Fang , Ningyu Zhang , Guojun Ma , Mingyang Wan , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Tat-seng Chua

Model editing aims to correct inaccurate knowledge, update outdated information, and incorporate new data into Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for retraining. This task poses challenges in lifelong scenarios where edits must…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qizhou Chen , Chengyu Wang , Dakan Wang , Taolin Zhang , Wangyue Li , Xiaofeng He

Neural language models (LMs) have been extensively trained on vast corpora to store factual knowledge about various aspects of the world described in texts. Current technologies typically employ knowledge editing methods or specific prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuchen Cai , Ding Cao , Rongxi Guo , Yaqin Wen , Guiquan Liu , Enhong Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) require lightweight avenues of updating stored information that has fallen out of date. Knowledge Editing (KE) approaches have been successful in updating model knowledge for simple factual queries but struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dominic Simon , Rickard Ewetz

Recent model editing techniques promise to mitigate the problem of memorizing false or outdated associations during LLM training. However, we show that these techniques can introduce large unwanted side effects which are not detected by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier , Julia Persson , Esben Kran , Ioannis Konstas , Fazl Barez

We propose a novel text editing task, referred to as \textit{fact-based text editing}, in which the goal is to revise a given document to better describe the facts in a knowledge base (e.g., several triples). The task is important in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Hayate Iso , Chao Qiao , Hang Li

Knowledge editing for large language models can offer an efficient solution to alter a model's behavior without negatively impacting the overall performance. However, the current approaches encounter issues with limited generalizability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ningyu Zhang , Bozhong Tian , Siyuan Cheng , Xiaozhuan Liang , Yi Hu , Kouying Xue , Yanjie Gou , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

Knowledge editing is a rising technique for efficiently updating factual knowledge in large language models (LLMs) with minimal alteration of parameters. However, recent studies have identified side effects, such as knowledge distortion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cheng-Hsun Hsueh , Paul Kuo-Ming Huang , Tzu-Han Lin , Che-Wei Liao , Hung-Chieh Fang , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

Previous studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) like GPTs store massive factual knowledge in their parameters. However, the stored knowledge could be false or out-dated. Traditional knowledge editing methods refine LLMs via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ce Zheng , Lei Li , Qingxiu Dong , Yuxuan Fan , Zhiyong Wu , Jingjing Xu , Baobao Chang

Large language models (LLMs) can make predictions using parametric knowledge--knowledge encoded in the model weights--or contextual knowledge--knowledge presented in the context. In many scenarios, a desirable behavior is that LLMs give…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yingfa Chen , Zhengyan Zhang , Xu Han , Chaojun Xiao , Zhiyuan Liu , Chen Chen , Kuai Li , Tao Yang , Maosong Sun

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit hallucinations due to incorrect or outdated knowledge. Hence, model editing methods have emerged to enable targeted knowledge updates. To achieve this, a prevailing paradigm is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Junfeng Fang , Houcheng Jiang , Kun Wang , Yunshan Ma , Shi Jie , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Tat-seng Chua

Model editing has become an increasingly popular alternative for efficiently updating knowledge within language models. Current methods mainly focus on reliability, generalization, and locality, with many methods excelling across these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Qi Li , Xiang Liu , Zhenheng Tang , Peijie Dong , Zeyu Li , Xinglin Pan , Xiaowen Chu

Language model (LM) pretraining can learn various knowledge from text corpora, helping downstream tasks. However, existing methods such as BERT model a single document, and do not capture dependencies or knowledge that span across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Michihiro Yasunaga , Jure Leskovec , Percy Liang

Recent work has showcased the powerful capability of large language models (LLMs) in recalling knowledge and reasoning. However, the reliability of LLMs in combining these two capabilities into reasoning through multi-hop facts has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tianjie Ju , Yijin Chen , Xinwei Yuan , Zhuosheng Zhang , Wei Du , Yubin Zheng , Gongshen Liu

Knowledge editing injects knowledge updates into language models to keep them correct and up-to-date. However, its current evaluations deviate significantly from practice: their knowledge updates solely consist of structured facts derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiaobao Wu , Liangming Pan , William Yang Wang , Anh Tuan Luu

Large Transformer models have achieved impressive performance in many natural language tasks. In particular, Transformer based language models have been shown to have great capabilities in encoding factual knowledge in their vast amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Chen Zhu , Ankit Singh Rawat , Manzil Zaheer , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Daliang Li , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar

Large Language Models' knowledge of how to perform cyber-security attacks, create bioweapons, and manipulate humans poses risks of misuse. Previous work has proposed methods to unlearn this knowledge. Historically, it has been unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Aghyad Deeb , Fabien Roger

Knowledge editing aims at updating knowledge of large language models (LLMs) to prevent them from becoming outdated. Existing work edits LLMs at the level of factual knowledge triplets. However, natural knowledge updates in the real world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hao Peng , Xiaozhi Wang , Chunyang Li , Kaisheng Zeng , Jiangshan Duo , Yixin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in different tasks and are bringing transformative changes to many domains. However, keeping the knowledge in LLMs up-to-date remains a challenge once pretraining is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiou Ge , Ali Mousavi , Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Kun Qian , Benjamin Han , Mostafa Arefiyan , Yunyao Li

As real-world knowledge evolves, the information embedded within large language models (LLMs) can become outdated, inadequate, or erroneous. Model editing has emerged as a prominent approach for updating LLMs' knowledge with minimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Guoxiu He , Xin Song , Aixin Sun