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External knowledge,e.g., entities and entity descriptions, can help humans understand texts. Many works have been explored to include external knowledge in the pre-trained models. These methods, generally, design pre-training tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qinghua Zhao , Shuai Ma , Yuxuan Lei

LLMs' sources of knowledge are data snapshots containing factual information about entities collected at different timestamps and from different media types (e.g. wikis, social media, etc.). Such unstructured knowledge is subject to change…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Simone Alghisi , Giuseppe Riccardi

A common solution for mitigating outdated or incorrect information in Large Language Models (LLMs) is to provide updated facts in-context or through knowledge editing. However, these methods introduce knowledge conflicts when the knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yiyang Feng , Zeming Chen , Haotian Wu , Jiawei Zhou , Antoine Bosselut

Knowledge-editing updates knowledge of large language models (LLMs) and contributes to the interpretability and application of LLMs. However, knowledge applying is context-consistent: LLMs can recall the same knowledge in different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Youcheng Huang , Wenqiang Lei , Zheng Zhang , Jiancheng Lv , Shuicheng Yan

Scientific publications are the primary means to communicate research discoveries, where the writing quality is of crucial importance. However, prior work studying the human editing process in this domain mainly focused on the abstract or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Chao Jiang , Wei Xu , Samuel Stevens

Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to correct and update factual information in Large Language Models (LLMs) to ensure accuracy and relevance without computationally expensive fine-tuning. Though it has been proven effective in several domains,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ching Ming Samuel Lau , Weiqi Wang , Haochen Shi , Baixuan Xu , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song

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

Deep learning models have set benchmark results in various Natural Language Processing tasks. However, these models require an enormous amount of training data, which is infeasible in many practical problems. While various techniques like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 K. M. Annervaz , Pritam Kumar Nath , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Multi-hop Question Answering (MQA) under knowledge editing (KE) is a key challenge in Large Language Models (LLMs). While best-performing solutions in this domain use a plan and solve paradigm to split a question into sub-questions followed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Keyuan Cheng , Muhammad Asif Ali , Shu Yang , Gang Lin , Yuxuan Zhai , Haoyang Fei , Ke Xu , Lu Yu , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Knowledge editing aims to efficiently correct factual errors in language models. Widely used locate-then-edit methods update an MLP layer by adjusting its weights to change the mapping between the layer's input vector (key) and output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haewon Park , Sangwoo Kim , Yohan Jo

While Knowledge Editing (KE) has been widely explored in English, its behavior in morphologically rich languages like Arabic remains underexamined. In this work, we present the first study of Arabic KE. We evaluate four methods (ROME,…

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

As artificial neural networks, and specifically large language models, have improved rapidly in capabilities and quality, they have increasingly been deployed in real-world applications, from customer service to Google search, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eugenia Iofinova , Dan Alistarh

Knowledge Editing has emerged as a promising solution for efficiently updating embedded knowledge in large language models (LLMs). While existing approaches demonstrate effectiveness in integrating new knowledge and preserving the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mengqi Zhang , Zisheng Zhou , Xiaotian Ye , Qiang Liu , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Verifiability is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, where editors are encouraged to provide citations for the added statements. Statements can be any arbitrary piece of text, ranging from a sentence up to a paragraph. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Besnik Fetahu

Detecting factual errors in textual information, whether generated by large language models (LLM) or curated by humans, is crucial for making informed decisions. LLMs' inability to attribute their claims to external knowledge and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Farima Fatahi Bayat , Kun Qian , Benjamin Han , Yisi Sang , Anton Belyi , Samira Khorshidi , Fei Wu , Ihab F. Ilyas , Yunyao Li

Regular updates are essential for maintaining up-to-date knowledge in large language models (LLMs). Consequently, various model editing methods have been developed to update specific knowledge within LLMs. However, training-based approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yujie Feng , Liming Zhan , Zexin Lu , Yongxin Xu , Xu Chu , Yasha Wang , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu , Xiao-Ming Wu

Recently, Locate-Then-Edit paradigm has emerged as one of the main approaches in changing factual knowledge stored in the Language models. However, there is a lack of research on whether present locating methods can pinpoint the exact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yiming Ju , Xingrun Xing , Zhixiong Zeng

Large Language Models (LLMs) require lightweight avenues of updating stored information that has fallen out of date. Knowledge Editing (KE) approaches have been successful in updating model knowledge for simple factual queries but struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dominic Simon , Rickard Ewetz

Resolving knowledge conflicts is a crucial challenge in Question Answering (QA) tasks, as the internet contains numerous conflicting facts and opinions. While some research has made progress in tackling ambiguous settings where multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sagi Shaier , Ari Kobren , Philip Ogren

We propose a novel text editing task, referred to as \textit{fact-based text editing}, in which the goal is to revise a given document to better describe the facts in a knowledge base (e.g., several triples). The task is important in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Hayate Iso , Chao Qiao , Hang Li