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Despite their exceptional capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are prone to generating unintended text due to false or outdated knowledge. Given the resource-intensive nature of retraining LLMs, there has been a notable increase in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jun-Yu Ma , Zhen-Hua Ling , Ningyu Zhang , Jia-Chen Gu

LLMs hold great promise for healthcare applications, but the rapid evolution of medical knowledge and errors in training data often cause them to generate outdated or inaccurate information, limiting their applicability in high-stakes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shujun Xia , Haokun Lin , Yichen Wu , Yinan Zhou , Zixuan Li , Zhongwei Wan , Xingrun Xing , Yefeng Zheng , Xiang Li , Caifeng Shan , Zhenan Sun , Quanzheng Li

Large Language Models often contain factually incorrect or outdated knowledge, giving rise to model editing methods for precise knowledge updates. However, current mainstream locate-then-edit approaches exhibit a progressive performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Peng Wang , Biyu Zhou , Xuehai Tang , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

As Large Langue Models have been shown to memorize real-world facts, the need to update this knowledge in a controlled and efficient manner arises. Designed with these constraints in mind, Knowledge Editing (KE) approaches propose to alter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Marco Scialanga , Thibault Laugel , Vincent Grari , Marcin Detyniecki

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great success in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, whist they still need updates after deployment to fix errors or keep pace with the changing knowledge in the world. Researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lang Yu , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He

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

Semantic parsing is the problem of deriving machine interpretable meaning representations from natural language utterances. Neural models with encoder-decoder architectures have recently achieved substantial improvements over traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Huseyin A. Inan , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Huapu Pan

Neural machine translation systems have become state-of-the-art approaches for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) task. In this paper, we propose a copy-augmented architecture for the GEC task by copying the unchanged words from the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Wei Zhao , Liang Wang , Kewei Shen , Ruoyu Jia , Jingming Liu

Large language models (LLMs) inevitably encode outdated or incorrect knowledge. Updating, deleting, and forgetting such knowledge is important for alignment, safety, and other issues. To address this issue, model editing has emerged as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wei Liu , Haomei Xu , Bingqing Liu , Zhiying Deng , Haozhao Wang , Jun Wang , Ruixuan Li , Yee Whye Teh , Wee Sun Lee

Previous studies have established that language models manifest stereotyped biases. Existing debiasing strategies, such as retraining a model with counterfactual data, representation projection, and prompting often fail to efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xin Xu , Wei Xu , Ningyu Zhang , Julian McAuley

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

The imperative task of revising or updating the knowledge stored within large language models arises from two distinct sources: intrinsic errors inherent in the model which should be corrected and outdated knowledge due to external shifts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xunjian Yin , Jin Jiang , Liming Yang , Xiaojun Wan

While large language models (LLMs) have enabled learning knowledge from the pre-training corpora, the acquired knowledge may be fundamentally incorrect or outdated over time, which necessitates rectifying the knowledge of the language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Chenmien Tan , Ge Zhang , Jie Fu

Neural sequence-to-sequence models are finding increasing use in editing of documents, for example in correcting a text document or repairing source code. In this paper, we argue that common seq2seq models (with a facility to copy single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sheena Panthaplackel , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

Large Transformer-based Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) dominate almost all Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Nevertheless, they still make mistakes from time to time. For a model deployed in an industrial environment, fixing these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zeyu Huang , Yikang Shen , Xiaofeng Zhang , Jie Zhou , Wenge Rong , Zhang Xiong

In this paper, we explore how to use a small amount of new data to update a task-oriented semantic parsing model when the desired output for some examples has changed. When making updates in this way, one potential problem that arises is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 David Gaddy , Alex Kouzemtchenko , Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy , Prateek Kolhar , Rushin Shah

A new type of robust estimation problem is introduced where the goal is to recover a statistical model that has been corrupted after it has been estimated from data. Methods are proposed for "repairing" the model using only the design and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Chao Gao , John Lafferty

Modeling structure and behavior of software systems plays a crucial role in the industrial practice of software engineering. As with other software engineering artifacts, software models are subject to evolution. Supporting modelers in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Christof Tinnes , Alisa Welter , Sven Apel

We introduce the problem of learning distributed representations of edits. By combining a "neural editor" with an "edit encoder", our models learn to represent the salient information of an edit and can be used to apply edits to new inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt

Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition. When using appropriate modeling units, e.g., byte-pair encoding, these systems are in principle open vocabulary systems. In practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel