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Recent knowledge editing methods have primarily focused on modifying structured knowledge in large language models. However, this task setting overlooks the fact that a significant portion of real-world knowledge is stored in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jingcheng Deng , Zihao Wei , Liang Pang , Hanxing Ding , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Knowledge editing (KE) aims to efficiently and precisely modify the behavior of large language models (LLMs) to update specific knowledge without negatively influencing other knowledge. Current research primarily focuses on white-box LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaoshuai Song , Zhengyang Wang , Keqing He , Guanting Dong , Yutao Mou , Jinxu Zhao , Weiran Xu

Large Language Models store extensive factual knowledge acquired during large-scale pre-training. However, this knowledge is inherently static, reflecting only the state of the world at the time of training. Knowledge editing has emerged as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Geunyeong Jeong , Juoh Sun , Seonghee Lee , Harksoo Kim

During pre-training, the Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models encode factual knowledge into their parameters. These parameterized facts enable realistic image generation, but they may become obsolete over time, thereby misrepresenting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Yili Wang , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

Efficient knowledge editing of large language models is crucial for replacing obsolete information or incorporating specialized knowledge on a large scale. However, previous methods implicitly assume that knowledge is localized and isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zihao Wei , Liang Pang , Hanxing Ding , Jingcheng Deng , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Knowledge editing aims to adjust the knowledge within large language models (LLMs) to prevent their responses from becoming obsolete or inaccurate. However, existing works on knowledge editing are primarily conducted in a single language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jiakuan Xie , Pengfei Cao , Yuheng Chen , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

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

The storage and recall of factual associations in auto-regressive transformer language models (LMs) have drawn a great deal of attention, inspiring knowledge editing by directly modifying the located model weights. Most editing works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xiyu Liu , Zhengxiao Liu , Naibin Gu , Zheng Lin , Wanli Ma , Ji Xiang , Weiping Wang

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

Knowledge editing has emerged as a lightweight alternative to retraining for correcting or injecting specific facts in large language models (LLMs). Meanwhile, fine-tuning remains the default operation for adapting LLMs to new domains and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yinjie Cheng , Paul Youssef , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer , Zhixue Zhao

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

Recently, knowledge editing (KE) has emerged as a promising approach to update specific facts in Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for full retraining. Despite the effectiveness in general-domain benchmarks, their applicability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shigeng Chen , Linhao Luo , Zhangchi Qiu , Yanan Cao , Carl Yang , Shirui Pan

While Knowledge Editing has been extensively studied in monolingual settings, it remains underexplored in multilingual contexts. This survey systematizes recent research on Multilingual Knowledge Editing (MKE), a growing subdomain of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nadir Durrani , Basel Mousi , Fahim Dalvi

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved medical AI, enabling it to unify the understanding of visual and textual information. However, as medical knowledge continues to evolve, it is critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Dexuan Xu , Jieyi Wang , Zhongyan Chai , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Huamin Zhang , Yu Huang

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

Deep neural networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in academia and industry, matching and surpassing human performance on a wide variety of fields and related tasks. However, just as humans, even the largest artificial neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Vittorio Mazzia , Alessandro Pedrani , Andrea Caciolai , Kay Rottmann , Davide Bernardi

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

Knowledge editing (KE) provides a scalable approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models without full retraining. While previous studies have demonstrated effectiveness in general domains and medical QA tasks, little…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shengtao Wen , Haodong Chen , Yadong Wang , Zhongying Pan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Bo Qian , Dong Liang , Sheng-Jun Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) store an extensive amount of factual knowledge obtained from vast collections of text. To effectively utilize these models for downstream tasks, it is crucial to have reliable methods for measuring their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Pouya Pezeshkpour

Online encyclopediae like Wikipedia contain large amounts of text that need frequent corrections and updates. The new information may contradict existing content in encyclopediae. In this paper, we focus on rewriting such dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Darsh J Shah , Tal Schuster , Regina Barzilay