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Large language models are known for encoding a vast amount of factual knowledge, but they often becomes outdated due to the ever-changing nature of external information. A promising solution to this challenge is the utilization of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nianwen Si , Hao Zhang , Weiqiang Zhang

Current approaches of knowledge editing struggle to effectively propagate updates to interconnected facts. In this work, we delve into the barriers that hinder the appropriate propagation of updated knowledge within these models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wenyue Hua , Jiang Guo , Mingwen Dong , Henghui Zhu , Patrick Ng , Zhiguo Wang

Language models deployed in real-world systems often require post-hoc updates to incorporate new or corrected knowledge. However, editing such models efficiently and reliably-without retraining or forgetting previous information-remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Wang , Yiming Qin , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Alessandro Favero , Pascal Frossard

Language models are known to encode a great amount of factual knowledge through pretraining. However, such knowledge might be insufficient to cater to user requests, requiring the model to integrate external knowledge sources and adhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sizhe Zhou , Sha Li , Yu Meng , Yizhu Jiao , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Although pre-training models have achieved great success in dialogue generation, their performance drops dramatically when the input contains an entity that does not appear in pre-training and fine-tuning datasets (unseen entity). To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Leyang Cui , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Yue Zhang

LLMs can generate factually incorrect statements even when provided access to reference documents. Such errors can be dangerous in high-stakes applications (e.g., document-grounded QA for healthcare or finance). We present GenAudit -- a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kundan Krishna , Sanjana Ramprasad , Prakhar Gupta , Byron C. Wallace , Zachary C. Lipton , Jeffrey P. Bigham

LLMs' sources of knowledge are data snapshots containing factual information about entities collected at different timestamps and from different media types (e.g. wikis, social media, etc.). Such unstructured knowledge is subject to change…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Simone Alghisi , Giuseppe Riccardi

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) is one of the challenging tasks to evaluate machine's comprehension and reasoning abilities, where large language models (LLMs) have widely achieved the human-comparable performance. Due to the dynamics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Xiaotian Han , Ninghao Liu , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

Fact verification models have enjoyed a fast advancement in the last two years with the development of pre-trained language models like BERT and the release of large scale datasets such as FEVER. However, the challenging problem of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qifei Li , Wangchunshu Zhou

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

Model editing is a technique that edits the large language models (LLMs) with updated knowledge to alleviate hallucinations without resource-intensive retraining. While current model editing methods can effectively modify a model's behavior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jia-Chen Gu , Hao-Xiang Xu , Jun-Yu Ma , Pan Lu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Language models have demonstrated remarkable performance in solving reasoning tasks; however, even the strongest models still occasionally make reasoning mistakes. Recently, there has been active research aimed at improving reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tian Ye , Zicheng Xu , Yuanzhi Li , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu

Though pre-trained language models such as Bert and XLNet, have rapidly advanced the state-of-the-art on many NLP tasks, they implicit semantics only relying on surface information between words in corpus. Intuitively, background knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ruiqing Yan , Lanchang Sun , Fang Wang , Xiaoming Zhang

Large multi-modal models inevitably decay over time as facts update and previously learned information becomes outdated. Traditional approaches such as fine-tuning are often impractical for updating these models due to their size and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

Large transformer-based pre-trained language models have achieved impressive performance on a variety of knowledge-intensive tasks and can capture factual knowledge in their parameters. We argue that storing large amounts of knowledge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jivat Neet Kaur , Sumit Bhatia , Milan Aggarwal , Rachit Bansal , Balaji Krishnamurthy

The aim of knowledge base completion is to predict unseen facts from existing facts in knowledge bases. In this work, we introduce the first approach for transfer of knowledge from one collection of facts to another without the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Vid Kocijan , Thomas Lukasiewicz

LLMs are known to store vast amounts of knowledge in their parametric memory. However, learning and recalling facts from this memory is known to be unreliable, depending largely on the prevalence of particular facts in the training data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jessy Lin , Vincent-Pierre Berges , Xilun Chen , Wen-Tau Yih , Gargi Ghosh , Barlas Oğuz

In this work, we study the impact of QA fine-tuning data on downstream factuality. We show that fine-tuning on lesser-known facts that are poorly stored during pretraining yields significantly worse factuality than fine-tuning on well-known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Gaurav Ghosal , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Aditi Raghunathan

Despite the ability to train capable LLMs, the methodology for maintaining their relevancy and rectifying errors remains elusive. To this end, the past few years have witnessed a surge in techniques for editing LLMs, the objective of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yunzhi Yao , Peng Wang , Bozhong Tian , Siyuan Cheng , Zhoubo Li , Shumin Deng , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Finetuning provides a scalable and cost-effective means of customizing language models for specific tasks or response styles, with greater reliability than prompting or in-context learning. In contrast, the conventional wisdom is that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Eric Zhao , Pranjal Awasthi , Nika Haghtalab