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Sequential editing of structured knowledge in large language models allows targeted factual updates without retraining, yet existing methods often rely on complex regularization or constraint mechanisms whose necessity remains unclear. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zheng Wang , Kaixuan Zhang , Wanfang Chen , Jingwen Zhang , Xiaonan Lu

How to edit the knowledge in multi-step reasoning has become the major challenge in the knowledge editing (KE) of large language models (LLMs). The difficulty arises because the hallucinations of LLMs during multi-step reasoning often lead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yiwei Wang , Muhao Chen , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Large language models (LLMs) struggle with maintaining accurate knowledge due to conflicting/outdated parametric memories. While locate-and-edit methods address this, their reliance on models' internal representations leads to robustness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianhao Yan , Futing Wang , Yun Luo , Yafu Li , Yue Zhang

Large language models are known for encoding a vast amount of factual knowledge, but they often becomes outdated due to the ever-changing nature of external information. A promising solution to this challenge is the utilization of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nianwen Si , Hao Zhang , Weiqiang Zhang

Language models are known to encode a great amount of factual knowledge through pretraining. However, such knowledge might be insufficient to cater to user requests, requiring the model to integrate external knowledge sources and adhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sizhe Zhou , Sha Li , Yu Meng , Yizhu Jiao , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive impact in the field of natural language processing, but they still struggle with several issues regarding, such as completeness, timeliness, faithfulness and adaptability. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xintao Wang , Qianwen Yang , Yongting Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Qianyu He , Zhouhong Gu , Yanghua Xiao , Wei Wang

The static nature of knowledge within Large Language Models (LLMs) makes it difficult for them to adapt to evolving information, rendering knowledge editing a critical task. However, existing methods struggle with challenges of scalability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Minghu Wang , Shuliang Zhao , Yuanyuan Zhao , Hongxia Xu

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

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

This paper addresses the problems of missing reasoning chains and insufficient entity-level semantic understanding in large language models when dealing with tasks that require structured knowledge. It proposes a fine-tuning algorithm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Wuyang Zhang , Yexin Tian , Xiandong Meng , Mengjie Wang , Junliang Du

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique for transferring knowledge from complex teacher models to simpler student models, significantly enhancing model efficiency and accuracy. It has demonstrated substantial advancements in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Junjie Yang , Junhao Song , Xudong Han , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang , Qian Niu , Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Liu

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-scale language models have recently demonstrated impressive empirical performance. Nevertheless, the improved results are attained at the price of bigger models, more power consumption, and slower inference, which hinder their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Kevin J Liang , Weituo Hao , Dinghan Shen , Yufan Zhou , Weizhu Chen , Changyou Chen , Lawrence Carin

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

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models can be viewed as an off-policy learning problem, where expert demonstrations come from a fixed behavior policy while training aims to optimize a target policy. Importance sampling is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shiwan Zhao , Xuyang Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Aobo Kong , Qicheng Li , Yong Qin

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

Robustness to capitalization errors is a highly desirable characteristic of named entity recognizers, yet we find standard models for the task are surprisingly brittle to such noise. Existing methods to improve robustness to the noise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sravan Bodapati , Hyokun Yun , Yaser Al-Onaizan

Large language models (LLMs) require constant updates to remain aligned with evolving real-world knowledge. Model editing offers a lightweight alternative to retraining, but sequential editing often destabilizes representations and induces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qingyuan Liu , Jia-Chen Gu , Yunzhi Yao , Hong Wang , Nanyun Peng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet aligning these models with human values and preferences using RLHF remains a significant challenge. This challenge is characterized by various instabilities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Baolin Peng , Linfeng Song , Ye Tian , Lifeng Jin , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Although large language models (LLMs) excel in knowledge recall and reasoning, their static nature leads to outdated information as the real world evolves or when adapting to domain-specific knowledge, highlighting the need for effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ruoxi Xu , Yunjie Ji , Boxi Cao , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Ben He , Yingfei Sun , Xiangang Li , Le Sun