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In this paper, we investigate whether Large Language Models (LLMs) actively recall or retrieve their internal repositories of factual knowledge when faced with reasoning tasks. Through an analysis of LLMs' internal factual recall at each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yifei Wang , Yuheng Chen , Wanting Wen , Yu Sheng , Linjing Li , Daniel Dajun 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Large Language Models (LLMs) require lightweight avenues of updating stored information that has fallen out of date.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

Knowledge editing techniques for large language models (LLMs) can inject knowledge that is later reproducible verbatim, but they fall short on propagating that knowledge: models cannot answer questions that require reasoning with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zeyu Leo Liu , Greg Durrett , Eunsol Choi

Knowledge Editing (KE) for modifying factual knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) has been receiving increasing attention. However, existing knowledge editing methods are entity-centric, and it is unclear whether this approach is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yifan Wei , Xiaoyan Yu , Huanhuan Ma , Fangyu Lei , Yixuan Weng , Ran Song , Kang Liu

Knowledge editing is a promising way to improve factuality in large language models, but recent studies have shown significant model degradation during sequential editing. In this paper, we formalize the popular locate-then-edit methods as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Akshat Gupta , Phudish Prateepamornkul , Maochuan Lu , Ahmed Alaa , Thomas Hartvigsen , Gopala Anumanchipalli

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

Large language models (LLMs) excel at factual recall yet still propagate stale or incorrect knowledge. In-context knowledge editing offers a gradient-free remedy suitable for black-box APIs, but current editors rely on static demonstration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahmud Wasif Nafee , Maiqi Jiang , Haipeng Chen , Yanfu Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted in various downstream task domains. However, their abilities to directly recall and apply factual medical knowledge remains under-explored. Most existing medical QA benchmarks assess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jiaxi Li , Yiwei Wang , Kai Zhang , Yujun Cai , Bryan Hooi , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang , Jin Lu

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) face inherent limitations due to their pre-defined context lengths, which impede their capacity for multi-hop reasoning within extensive textual contexts. While existing techniques like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Weizhi Fei , Xueyan Niu , Guoqing Xie , Yanhua Zhang , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

Model editing aims to correct outdated or erroneous knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without the need for costly retraining. Lifelong model editing is the most challenging task that caters to the continuous editing requirements of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qizhou Chen , Taolin Zhang , Xiaofeng He , Dongyang Li , Chengyu Wang , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue

As Large Langue Models have been shown to memorize real-world facts, the need to update this knowledge in a controlled and efficient manner arises. Designed with these constraints in mind, Knowledge Editing (KE) approaches propose to alter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Marco Scialanga , Thibault Laugel , Vincent Grari , Marcin Detyniecki

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world dynamic environments raises the challenge of updating their pre-trained knowledge. While existing knowledge editing methods can reliably patch isolated facts, they frequently suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tianyi Zhao , Yinhan He , Wendy Zheng , Chen Chen

Multilingual knowledge editing (MKE) aims to simultaneously update factual knowledge across multiple languages within large language models (LLMs). Previous research indicates that the same knowledge across different languages within LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xue Zhang , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Songming Zhang , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

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

To answer one-to-many factual queries (e.g., listing cities of a country), a language model (LM) must simultaneously recall knowledge and avoid repeating previous answers. How are these two subtasks implemented and integrated internally?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Tianyi Lorena Yan , Robin Jia

Large Language Model (LLM) editing modifies factual information in LLMs. Locate-and-Edit (L\&E) methods accomplish this by finding where relevant information is stored within the neural network, and editing the weights at that location. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Itai Feigenbaum , Devansh Arpit , Huan Wang , Shelby Heinecke , Juan Carlos Niebles , Weiran Yao , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become indispensable tools in science, technology, and society, enabling transformative advances across diverse fields. However, errors or outdated information within these models can undermine their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qizhou Chen , Chengyu Wang , Taolin Zhang , Xiaofeng He

Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to adjust a Large Language Model's (LLM) internal representations and parameters to correct inaccuracies and improve output consistency without incurring the computational expense of re-training the entire model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Liyu Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Yangqiu Song

Locating and editing knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing their accuracy, safety, and inference rationale. We introduce ``concept editing'', an innovative variation of knowledge editing that uncovers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Nura Aljaafari , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

Large Language Models (LLMs) usually suffer from knowledge cutoff or fallacy issues, which means they are unaware of unseen events or generate text with incorrect facts owing to outdated/noisy data. To this end, many knowledge editing…