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Large Language Models store extensive factual knowledge acquired during large-scale pre-training. However, this knowledge is inherently static, reflecting only the state of the world at the time of training. Knowledge editing has emerged as…

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As artificial neural networks, and specifically large language models, have improved rapidly in capabilities and quality, they have increasingly been deployed in real-world applications, from customer service to Google search, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eugenia Iofinova , Dan Alistarh

Post-training for large language models (LLMs) is constrained by the high cost of acquiring new knowledge or correcting errors and by the unintended side effects that frequently arise from retraining. To address these issues, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yisu Wang , Ming Wang , Haoyuan Song , Wenjie Huang , Chaozheng Wang , Yi Xie , Xuming Ran

Large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge during pre-training, but over time, this knowledge may become incorrect or outdated, necessitating updates after training. Knowledge editing techniques address this issue without the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuchen Cai , Ding Cao

To ensure large language models contain up-to-date knowledge, they need to be updated regularly. However, model editing is challenging as it might also affect knowledge that is unrelated to the new data. State-of-the-art methods identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mingyang Wang , Lukas Lange , Heike Adel , Jannik Strötgen , Hinrich Schütze

Given recent advances in generative AI technology, a key question is how large language models (LLMs) can enhance acoustic modeling tasks using text decoding results from a frozen, pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. To…

While large pre-trained models have enabled impressive results on a variety of downstream tasks, the largest existing models still make errors, and even accurate predictions may become outdated over time. Because detecting all such failures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Eric Mitchell , Charles Lin , Antoine Bosselut , Chelsea Finn , Christopher D. Manning

Deep neural networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in academia and industry, matching and surpassing human performance on a wide variety of fields and related tasks. However, just as humans, even the largest artificial neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Vittorio Mazzia , Alessandro Pedrani , Andrea Caciolai , Kay Rottmann , Davide Bernardi

As the world changes, we need to be able to update our models and correct false information without costly retraining. Knowledge-based model editing enables precise modifications to the weights of large language models in order to modify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Elan Markowitz , Anil Ramakrishna , Ninareh Mehrabi , Charith Peris , Rahul Gupta , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan

We present a reality check on large language models and inspect the promise of retrieval augmented language models in comparison. Such language models are semi-parametric, where models integrate model parameters and knowledge from external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Wang-Chiew Tan , Yuliang Li , Pedro Rodriguez , Richard James , Xi Victoria Lin , Alon Halevy , Scott Yih

Null-space-based methods have garnered considerable attention in model editing by constraining updates to the null space of the pre-existing knowledge representation, thereby preserving the model's original behavior. However, in practice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bingqing Liu , Wei Liu , Yuhua Li

Recent research has explored methods for updating and modifying factual knowledge in large language models, often focusing on specific multi-layer perceptron blocks. This study expands on this work by examining the effectiveness of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Daniel Tamayo , Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre , Javier Hernando , Marta Villegas

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful but static; they lack mechanisms to adapt their weights in response to new tasks, knowledge, or examples. We introduce Self-Adapting LLMs (SEAL), a framework that enables LLMs to self-adapt by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Adam Zweiger , Jyothish Pari , Han Guo , Ekin Akyürek , Yoon Kim , Pulkit Agrawal

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

Editing knowledge in large language models is an attractive capability to have which allows us to correct incorrectly learnt facts during pre-training, as well as update the model with an ever-growing list of new facts. While existing model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Akshat Gupta , Anurag Rao , Gopala Anumanchipalli

Metrics are the foundation for automatic evaluation in grammatical error correction (GEC), with their evaluation of the metrics (meta-evaluation) relying on their correlation with human judgments. However, conventional meta-evaluations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Masamune Kobayashi , Masato Mita , Mamoru Komachi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) traditionally assumes known domains, but adding data from a new domain raises concerns about computational inefficiencies linked to retraining models on both existing and new domains. Fine-tuning solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Brady Houston , Nikolaos Pappas , Srikanth Ronanki

Machine unlearning aims to remove unwanted information from a model, but many methods are inefficient for LLMs with large numbers of parameters or fail to fully remove the intended information without degrading performance on knowledge that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Shariqah Hossain , Lalana Kagal

Foundation models encompass an extensive knowledge base and offer remarkable transferability. However, this knowledge becomes outdated or insufficient over time. The challenge lies in continuously updating foundation models to accommodate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Wenxuan Zhang , Paul Janson , Rahaf Aljundi , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Counterfactuals refer to minimally edited inputs that cause a model's prediction to change, serving as a promising approach to explaining the model's behavior. Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating English counterfactuals and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qianli Wang , Van Bach Nguyen , Yihong Liu , Fedor Splitt , Nils Feldhus , Christin Seifert , Hinrich Schütze , Sebastian Möller , Vera Schmitt