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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

Knowledge editing has become a promising approach for efficiently and precisely updating knowledge embedded in large language models (LLMs). In this work, we focus on Same-Subject Editing, which involves modifying multiple attributes of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zenghao Duan , Wenbin Duan , Zhiyi Yin , Yinghan Shen , Shaoling Jing , Jie Zhang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Large Language Models for Code (LLMs4Code) have been found to exhibit outstanding performance in the software engineering domain, especially the remarkable performance in coding tasks. However, even the most advanced LLMs4Code can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xiaopeng Li , Shangwen Wang , Shasha Li , Jun Ma , Jie Yu , Xiaodong Liu , Jing Wang , Bin Ji , Weimin Zhang

As the world changes, we need to be able to update our models and correct false information without costly retraining. Knowledge-based model editing enables precise modifications to the weights of large language models in order to modify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Elan Markowitz , Anil Ramakrishna , Ninareh Mehrabi , Charith Peris , Rahul Gupta , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan

Model editing aims at selectively updating a small subset of a neural model's parameters with an interpretable strategy to achieve desired modifications. It can significantly reduce computational costs to adapt to large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shichen Li , Zhongqing Wang , Zheyu Zhao , Yue Zhang , Peifeng Li

Knowledge editing, which aims to update the knowledge encoded in language models, can be deceptive. Despite the fact that many existing knowledge editing algorithms achieve near-perfect performance on conventional metrics, the models edited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiakuan Xie , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Even the largest neural networks make errors, and once-correct predictions can become invalid as the world changes. Model editors make local updates to the behavior of base (pre-trained) models to inject updated knowledge or correct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Eric Mitchell , Charles Lin , Antoine Bosselut , Christopher D. Manning , Chelsea Finn

Large Language Models (LLMs) and pre-trained Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive success on many software engineering tasks (e.g., code completion and code generation). By leveraging huge existing code corpora (e.g., GitHub),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xin Yin , Chao Ni , Xiaodan Xu , Xinrui Li , Xiaohu Yang

While current large language models (LLMs) perform well on many knowledge-related tasks, they are limited by relying on their parameters as an implicit storage mechanism. As a result, they struggle with memorizing rare events and with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Ali Modarressi , Abdullatif Köksal , Ayyoob Imani , Mohsen Fayyaz , Hinrich Schütze

This paper investigates using knowledge editing techniques to detoxify Large Language Models (LLMs). We construct a benchmark, SafeEdit, which covers nine unsafe categories with various powerful attack prompts and equips comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Mengru Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Ziwen Xu , Zekun Xi , Shumin Deng , Yunzhi Yao , Qishen Zhang , Linyi Yang , Jindong Wang , Huajun Chen

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

While large language models (LLMs) have enabled learning knowledge from the pre-training corpora, the acquired knowledge may be fundamentally incorrect or outdated over time, which necessitates rectifying the knowledge of the language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Chenmien Tan , Ge Zhang , Jie Fu

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

Model editing techniques modify a minor proportion of knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) at a relatively low cost, which have demonstrated notable success. Existing methods assume Transformer Layer (TL) hidden states are values of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiaopeng Li , Shasha Li , Shezheng Song , Jing Yang , Jun Ma , Jie Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities in factual question answering, yet they sometimes provide incorrect responses. To address this issue, knowledge editing techniques have emerged as effective methods for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhenning Chen , Hanbei Zhan , Yanwei Huang , Xin Wu , Dazhen Deng , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

Knowledge representation has been a central aim of AI since its inception. Symbolic Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and neural Large Language Models (LLMs) can both represent knowledge. KGs provide highly accurate and explicit knowledge…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) need efficient mechanisms to update knowledge without degrading existing capabilities. While intrinsic multimodal knowledge editing achieves strong reliability and locality, it often exhibits limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Haoyuan Wang , Xiaohao Liu , Jiajie Su , Jianmao Xiao , Chaochao Chen

Given the prevalence of large language models (LLMs) and the prohibitive cost of training these models from scratch, dynamically forgetting specific knowledge e.g., private or proprietary, without retraining the model has become an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tyler Lizzo , Larry Heck

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) are a cost-effective way to update the factual content of large language models (LLMs), but they pose a dual-use risk. While KEs are beneficial for updating outdated or incorrect information, they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Paul Youssef , Zhixue Zhao , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer

Despite the many advances of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their unprecedented rapid evolution, their impact and integration into every facet of our daily lives is limited due to various reasons. One critical factor hindering their…

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