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Knowledge editing techniques, aiming to efficiently modify a minor proportion of knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without negatively impacting performance across other inputs, have garnered widespread attention. However, existing…

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The important challenge of keeping knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) up-to-date has led to the development of various methods for incorporating new facts. However, existing methods for such knowledge editing still face difficulties…

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Training vision language models (VLMs) aims to align visual representations from a vision encoder with the textual representations of a pretrained large language model (LLM). However, many VLMs exhibit reduced factual recall performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Constantin Venhoff , Ashkan Khakzar , Sonia Joseph , Philip Torr , Neel Nanda

Large language models (LLMs) struggle with maintaining accurate knowledge due to conflicting/outdated parametric memories.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

The swift advancement in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) also presents significant challenges for effective knowledge editing. Current methods, including intrinsic knowledge editing and external knowledge resorting, each possess strengths and…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in downstream tasks, but keeping their knowledge up-to-date via retraining or fine-tuning is often computationally expensive. Model editing provides a more efficient alternative by updating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Bhiman Kumar Baghel , Emma Jordan , Zheyuan Ryan Shi , Xiang Lorraine Li

The extensive utilization of large language models (LLMs) underscores the crucial necessity for precise and contemporary knowledge embedded within their intrinsic parameters. Existing research on knowledge editing primarily concentrates on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zihao Wei , Jingcheng Deng , Liang Pang , Hanxing Ding , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Answering multi-hop reasoning questions requires retrieving and synthesizing information from diverse sources. Language models (LMs) struggle to perform such reasoning consistently. We propose an approach to pinpoint and rectify multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Mansi Sakarvadia

Knowledge editing aims to update specific facts in large language models (LLMs) without full retraining. Prior efforts sought to tune the knowledge layers of LLMs, achieving improved performance in controlled, teacher-forced evaluations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ruilin Li , Yibin Wang , Wenhong Zhu , Chenglin Li , Jinghao Zhang , Chenliang Li , Junchi Yan , Jiaqi Wang

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast amounts of world knowledge but remain static once trained, making the timely integration of emerging facts prohibitively expensive via full retraining. Knowledge-editing techniques have thus emerged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuchen Wu , Liang Ding , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

In-context knowledge editing (IKE) enables efficient modification of large language model (LLM) outputs without parameter changes and at zero-cost. However, it can be misused to manipulate responses opaquely, e.g., insert misinformation or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Paul Youssef , Zhixue Zhao , Jörg Schlötterer , Christin Seifert

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

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

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

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

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) is one of the challenging tasks to evaluate machine's comprehension and reasoning abilities, where large language models (LLMs) have widely achieved the human-comparable performance. Due to the dynamics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Xiaotian Han , Ninghao Liu , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

In this paper, we focus on the challenging task of reliably estimating factual knowledge that is embedded inside large language models (LLMs). To avoid reliability concerns with prior approaches, we propose to eliminate prompt engineering…

Knowledge editing aims to efficiently update Large Language Models (LLMs) by modifying specific knowledge without retraining the entire model. Among knowledge editing approaches, in-context editing (ICE) offers a lightweight solution by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Changyue Wang , Weihang Su , Qingyao Ai , Yujia Zhou , Yiqun Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities across numerous application domains. A key challenge is to keep these models updated with latest available information, which limits the true potential of these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Muhammad Asif Ali , Nawal Daftardar , Mutayyaba Waheed , Jianbin Qin , Di Wang

Knowledge editing aims at updating knowledge of large language models (LLMs) to prevent them from becoming outdated. Existing work edits LLMs at the level of factual knowledge triplets. However, natural knowledge updates in the real world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hao Peng , Xiaozhi Wang , Chunyang Li , Kaisheng Zeng , Jiangshan Duo , Yixin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li