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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

Knowledge editing has emerged as an efficient approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models (LLMs). It typically locates knowledge storage modules and then modifies their parameters. However, most existing methods focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiahao Liu , Zijian Wang , Kuo Zhao , Dong Hu

Recently, there has been a growing interest in knowledge editing for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current approaches and evaluations merely explore the instance-level editing, while whether LLMs possess the capability to modify concepts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiaohan Wang , Shengyu Mao , Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Yunzhi Yao , Yue Shen , Lei Liang , Jinjie Gu , Huajun Chen

Model editing aims to modify the outputs of large language models after they are trained. Previous approaches have often involved direct alterations to model weights, which can result in model degradation. Recent techniques avoid making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hammad Rizwan , Domenic Rosati , Ga Wu , Hassan Sajjad

The honesty of large language models (LLMs) is a critical alignment challenge, especially as advanced systems with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning may strategically deceive humans. Unlike traditional honesty issues on LLMs, which could be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Kai Wang , Yihao Zhang , Meng Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown extraordinary capabilities in understanding and generating text that closely mirrors human communication. However, a primary limitation lies in the significant computational demands during training,…

Model editing aims to correct outdated or erroneous knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without the need for costly retraining.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

Generating stylized large language model (LLM) responses via representation editing is a promising way for fine-grained output control. However, there exists an inherent trade-off: imposing a distinctive style often degrades truthfulness.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chenglei Shen , Zhongxiang Sun , Teng Shi , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

The current trend toward ever-larger models makes standard retraining procedures an ever-more expensive burden. For this reason, there is growing interest in model editing, which enables computationally inexpensive, interpretable, post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Davis Brown , Charles Godfrey , Cody Nizinski , Jonathan Tu , Henry Kvinge

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to perform natural language understanding and generation tasks. In this work, we investigate the use of LLMs for evaluating faithfulness in news summarization,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yi-Hui Lee , Xiangci Li , Jessica Ouyang

Editing human-written text has become a standard use case of large language models (LLMs), for example, to make one's arguments more appropriate for a discussion. Comparing human to LLM-generated edits, however, we observe a mismatch in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Timon Ziegenbein , Maja Stahl , Henning Wachsmuth

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being employed in real-world applications in critical domains such as healthcare, it is important to ensure that the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning generated by these models faithfully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sree Harsha Tanneru , Dan Ley , Chirag Agarwal , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Large language models (LLMs) for code are increasingly used in software development, but they remain static after pretraining while APIs and software libraries continue to evolve. Model editing offers a lightweight alternative to retraining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vinaik Chhetri , Moghis Fereidouni , A. B Siddique , Umar Farooq

Chain-of-thought explanations are widely used to inspect the decision process of large language models (LLMs) and to evaluate the trustworthiness of model outputs, making them important for effective collaboration between LLMs and humans.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Pedro Ferreira , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently revolutionized the NLP field, while they still fall short in some specific down-stream tasks. In the work, we focus on utilizing LLMs to perform machine translation, where we observe that two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Weichuan Wang , Zhaoyi Li , Defu Lian , Chen Ma , Linqi Song , Ying Wei

Model editing offers a low-cost technique to inject or correct a particular behavior in a pre-trained model without extensive retraining, supporting applications such as factual correction and bias mitigation. Despite this common practice,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Feng He , Zhenyang Liu , Marco Valentino , Zhixue Zhao

Knowledge editing techniques, aiming to efficiently modify a minor proportion of knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without negatively impacting performance across other inputs, have garnered widespread attention. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yuxin Jiang , Yufei Wang , Chuhan Wu , Wanjun Zhong , Xingshan Zeng , Jiahui Gao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Ruiming Tang , Qun Liu , Wei Wang

Large language models (LLMs) acquire information from pre-training corpora, but their stored knowledge can become inaccurate or outdated over time. Model editing addresses this challenge by modifying model parameters without retraining, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zherui Li , Houcheng Jiang , Hao Chen , Baolong Bi , Zhenhong Zhou , Fei Sun , Junfeng Fang , Xiang Wang

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

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