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Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive language capabilities but remain vulnerable to malicious prompts and jailbreaking attacks. Existing knowledge editing methods for LLM detoxification face two major challenges. First, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yifan Lu , Jing Li , Yigeng Zhou , Yihui Zhang , Wenya Wang , Xiucheng Li , Meishan Zhang , Fangming Liu , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Model editing aims to precisely alter the behaviors of large language models (LLMs) in relation to specific knowledge, while leaving unrelated knowledge intact. This approach has proven effective in addressing issues of hallucination and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Derong Xu , Ziheng Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Zhenxi Lin , Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Tong Xu , Wanyu Wang , Yuyang Ye , Xiangyu Zhao , Enhong Chen , Yefeng Zheng

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

Knowledge editing is a promising way to improve factuality in large language models, but recent studies have shown significant model degradation during sequential editing. In this paper, we formalize the popular locate-then-edit methods as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Akshat Gupta , Phudish Prateepamornkul , Maochuan Lu , Ahmed Alaa , Thomas Hartvigsen , Gopala Anumanchipalli

Despite their success at many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, large language models still struggle to effectively leverage knowledge for knowledge-intensive tasks, manifesting limitations such as generating incomplete, non-factual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yougang Lyu , Lingyong Yan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Haibo Shi , Dawei Yin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Existing locate-then-edit Knowledge Editing (KE) methods typically decompose editing into two stages: upstream target representation optimization and downstream constrained parameter optimization. The optimization across the two stages is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuxin Liu , Di Gao , Ou Wu

Knowledge editing (KE) provides a lightweight alternative to repeated fine-tuning of LLMs. However, most existing KE methods target dense feed-forward layers, while modern LLMs increasingly adopt Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Roman Maksimov , Vladimir Aletov , Dmitry Bylinkin , Daniil Medyakov , Vladimir Solodkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) can update language models' obsolete or inaccurate knowledge learned from pre-training. However, KEs can be used for malicious applications, e.g., inserting misinformation and toxic content. Knowing whether a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Paul Youssef , Zhixue Zhao , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer

Knowledge editing aims to efficiently and cost-effectively correct inaccuracies and update outdated information. Recently, there has been growing interest in extending knowledge editing from Large Language Models (LLMs) to Multimodal Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Leijiang Gu , Xun Yang , Zhangling Duan , Zenglin Shi , Meng Wang

Large language Model (LLM) unlearning, i.e., selectively removing information from LLMs, is vital for responsible model deployment. Differently, LLM knowledge editing aims to modify LLM knowledge instead of removing it. Though editing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zexi Li , Xiangzhu Wang , William F. Shen , Meghdad Kurmanji , Xinchi Qiu , Dongqi Cai , Chao Wu , Nicholas D. Lane

Model editing, the process of efficiently modifying factual knowledge in pre-trained language models, is critical for maintaining their accuracy and relevance. However, existing editing methods often introduce unintended side effects,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tsung-Hsuan Pan , Chung-Chi Chen , Hen-Hsen Huang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in different tasks and are bringing transformative changes to many domains. However, keeping the knowledge in LLMs up-to-date remains a challenge once pretraining is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiou Ge , Ali Mousavi , Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Kun Qian , Benjamin Han , Mostafa Arefiyan , Yunyao Li

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast world knowledge but struggle to stay up-to-date, often leading to errors and hallucinations. Knowledge editing offers an efficient alternative to retraining, enabling targeted modifications by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Weitao Ma , Xiyuan Du , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yichong Huang , Huiyi Zhang , Xiaoliang Yang , Baohang Li , Xiachong Feng , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Knowledge stored in large language models requires timely updates to reflect the dynamic nature of real-world information. To update the knowledge, most knowledge editing methods focus on the low layers, since recent probes into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Wenhang Shi , Yiren Chen , Shuqing Bian , Xinyi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Pengfei Hu , Wei Lu , Xiaoyong Du

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

Knowledge editing for large language models can offer an efficient solution to alter a model's behavior without negatively impacting the overall performance. However, the current approaches encounter issues with limited generalizability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ningyu Zhang , Bozhong Tian , Siyuan Cheng , Xiaozhuan Liang , Yi Hu , Kouying Xue , Yanjie Gou , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

Large language models (LLMs) require model editing to efficiently update specific knowledge within them and avoid factual errors. Most model editing methods are solely designed for single-time use and result in a significant forgetting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jiaang Li , Quan Wang , Zhongnan Wang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Model editing aims to efficiently update a pre-trained model's knowledge without the need for time-consuming full retraining. While existing pioneering editing methods achieve promising results, they primarily focus on editing single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiyi Shi , Binjie Wang , Chongjie Si , Yichen Wu , Junsik Kim , Hanspeter Pfister

As real-world knowledge is constantly evolving, ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of a model's knowledge is crucial. This has made knowledge editing in large language models increasingly important. However, existing knowledge editing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yongchang Li , Yujin Zhu , Tao Yan , Shijian Fan , Gang Wu , Liang Xu

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