English
Related papers

Related papers: Evaluating the Ripple Effects of Knowledge Editing…

200 papers

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

Knowledge editing has been proposed as an effective method for updating and correcting the internal knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing editing methods often struggle with complex tasks, such as multi-hop reasoning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Mengqi Zhang , Xiaotian Ye , Qiang Liu , Pengjie Ren , Shu Wu , Zhumin Chen

Model editing has been gaining increasing attention over the past few years. For Knowledge Editing in particular, more challenging evaluation datasets have recently been released. These datasets use different methodologies to score the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sebastian Pohl , Max Ploner , Alan Akbik

As the cost associated with fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to rise, recent research efforts have pivoted towards developing methodologies to edit implicit knowledge embedded within LLMs. Yet, there's still a dark cloud…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhoubo Li , Ningyu Zhang , Yunzhi Yao , Mengru Wang , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

Knowledge Editing (KE) for modifying factual knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) has been receiving increasing attention. However, existing knowledge editing methods are entity-centric, and it is unclear whether this approach is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yifan Wei , Xiaoyan Yu , Huanhuan Ma , Fangyu Lei , Yixuan Weng , Ran Song , Kang Liu

The factual knowledge acquired during pre-training and stored in the parameters of Language Models (LMs) can be useful in downstream tasks (e.g., question answering or textual inference). However, some facts can be incorrectly induced or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Nicola De Cao , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Knowledge editing aims to update the embedded knowledge within Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing approaches, whether through parameter modification or external memory integration, often suffer from inconsistent evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Guoxiu He , Xin Song , Futing Wang , Aixin Sun

Our world is marked by unprecedented technological, global, and socio-political transformations, posing a significant challenge to text-to-image generative models. These models encode factual associations within their parameters that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dana Arad , Hadas Orgad , Yonatan Belinkov

In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, the concept of Red-Teaming or Jailbreaking large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a crucial area of study. This approach is especially significant in terms of assessing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Rima Hazra , Sayan Layek , Somnath Banerjee , Soujanya Poria

In a rapidly evolving world where information updates swiftly, knowledge in large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated quickly. Retraining LLMs is not a cost-effective option, making knowledge editing (KE) without modifying parameters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yi Liu , Xiangrong Zhu , Xiangyu Liu , Wei Wei , Wei Hu

We explore whether Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of logical reasoning with distorted facts, which we call Deduction under Perturbed Evidence (DUPE). DUPE presents a unique challenge to LLMs since they typically rely on their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Shashank Sonkar , Richard G. Baraniuk

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

Large language models (LLMs) require frequent knowledge updates to reflect changing facts and mitigate hallucinations. To meet this demand, lifelong knowledge editing has emerged as a continual approach to modify specific pieces of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dahyun Jung , Jaewook Lee , Heuiseok Lim

The information stored in large language models (LLMs) falls out of date quickly, and retraining from scratch is often not an option. This has recently given rise to a range of techniques for injecting new facts through updating model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zexuan Zhong , Zhengxuan Wu , Christopher D. Manning , Christopher Potts , Danqi Chen

Language models learn a great quantity of factual information during pretraining, and recent work localizes this information to specific model weights like mid-layer MLP weights. In this paper, we find that we can change how a fact is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Peter Hase , Mohit Bansal , Been Kim , Asma Ghandeharioun

Knowledge editing technology has received widespread attention for low-cost updates of incorrect or outdated knowledge in large-scale language models. However, recent research has found that edited models often exhibit varying degrees of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xiusheng Huang , Jiaxiang Liu , Yequan Wang , Kang Liu

Despite the increasing effectiveness of language models, their reasoning capabilities remain underdeveloped. In particular, causal reasoning through counterfactual question answering is lacking. This work aims to bridge this gap. We first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Alihan Hüyük , Xinnuo Xu , Jacqueline Maasch , Aditya V. Nori , Javier González

We call into question the recently popularized method of direct model editing as a means of correcting factual errors in LLM generations. We contrast model editing with three similar but distinct approaches that pursue better defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuval Pinter , Michael Elhadad

Knowledge editing techniques promise to implant new factual knowledge into large language models (LLMs). But do LLMs really believe these facts? We develop a framework to measure belief depth and use it to evaluate the success of knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Stewart Slocum , Julian Minder , Clément Dumas , Henry Sleight , Ryan Greenblatt , Samuel Marks , Rowan Wang

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