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While counterfactual data augmentation offers a promising step towards robust generalization in natural language processing, producing a set of counterfactuals that offer valuable inductive bias for models remains a challenge. Most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Phillip Howard , Gadi Singer , Vasudev Lal , Yejin Choi , Swabha Swayamdipta

Many facts come with an expiration date, from the name of the President to the basketball team Lebron James plays for. But language models (LMs) are trained on snapshots of data collected at a specific moment in time, and this can limit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Bhuwan Dhingra , Jeremy R. Cole , Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Daniel Gillick , Jacob Eisenstein , William W. Cohen

Recently, knowledge editing on large language models (LLMs) has received considerable attention. Compared to this, editing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) faces extra challenges from diverse data modalities and complicated model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Han Huang , Haitian Zhong , Tao Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Unstructured Knowledge Editing (UKE) is crucial for updating the relevant knowledge of large language models (LLMs). It focuses on unstructured inputs, such as long or free-form texts, which are common forms of real-world knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hao Xiong , Chuanyuan Tan , Wenliang Chen

This paper studies the problem of injecting factual knowledge into large pre-trained language models. We train adapter modules on parts of the ConceptNet knowledge graph using the masked language modeling objective and evaluate the success…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sondre Wold

Knowledge editing technology is crucial for maintaining the accuracy and timeliness of large language models (LLMs) . However, the setting of this task overlooks a significant portion of commonsense knowledge based on free-text in the real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xiusheng Huang , Yequan Wang , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable text comprehension and generation capabilities but often lack the ability to utilize up-to-date or domain-specific knowledge not included in their training data. To address this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bo Zhang , Hui Ma , Dailin Li , Jian Ding , Jian Wang , Bo Xu , HongFei Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown proficiency in question-answering tasks but often struggle to integrate real-time knowledge, leading to potentially outdated or inaccurate responses. This problem becomes even more challenging when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yucheng Shi , Qiaoyu Tan , Xuansheng Wu , Shaochen Zhong , Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu

With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) internalize vast world knowledge as parametric memory, yet inevitably inherit the staleness and errors of their source corpora. Consequently, ensuring the reliability and malleability of these internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiaojie Gu , Ziying Huang , Weicong Hong , Jian Xie , Renze Lou , Kai Zhang

Language models (LMs) are sentence-completion engines trained on massive corpora. LMs have emerged as a significant breakthrough in natural-language processing, providing capabilities that go far beyond sentence completion including…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Robert E. Wray , III , James R. Kirk , John E. Laird

We propose a framework for computer-assisted text editing. It applies to translation post-editing and to paraphrasing. Our proposal relies on very simple interactions: a human editor modifies a sentence by marking tokens they would like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-30 David Grangier , Michael Auli

Knowledge Editing (KE) is a field that studies how to modify some knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) at a low cost (compared to pre-training). Currently, performing large-scale edits on LLMs while ensuring the Reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wentao Wan , Qiqing Lao , Zhiwei Xie , Hefeng Wu , Runnan Lin , Liang Lin , Keze Wang

Chinese, as a linguistic system rich in depth and complexity, is characterized by distinctive elements such as ancient poetry, proverbs, idioms, and other cultural constructs. However, current Large Language Models (LLMs) face limitations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jizhan Fang , Tianhe Lu , Yunzhi Yao , Ziyan Jiang , Xin Xu , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently driven striking performance improvements across a range of natural language processing tasks. The factual knowledge acquired during pretraining and instruction tuning can be useful in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xuming Hu , Junzhe Chen , Xiaochuan Li , Yufei Guo , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu , Zhijiang Guo

In this work, we introduce and analyze an approach to knowledge transfer from one collection of facts to another without the need for entity or relation matching. The method works for both canonicalized knowledge bases and uncanonicalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vid Kocijan , Myeongjun Erik Jang , Thomas Lukasiewicz

The locate-then-edit paradigm has shown significant promise for knowledge editing (KE) in Large Language Models (LLMs). While previous methods perform well on single-hop fact recall tasks, they consistently struggle with multi-hop factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhuoran Zhang , Yongxiang Li , Zijian Kan , Keyuan Cheng , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. However, even stronger LLMs are susceptible to acquiring erroneous or obsolete information from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Shiwen Ni , Dingwei Chen , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu , Ruifeng Xu , Min Yang

Model editing aims to correct outdated or erroneous knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without the need for costly retraining. Lifelong model editing is the most challenging task that caters to the continuous editing requirements of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qizhou Chen , Taolin Zhang , Xiaofeng He , Dongyang Li , Chengyu Wang , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue

As machine learning models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, e.g. as decision support systems in various societal sectors or in critical infrastructure, designers and auditors are facing the need to ensure that models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ioannis Kalogeropoulos , Giorgos Bouritsas , Yannis Panagakis