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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…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) internalize vast world knowledge as parametric memory, yet inevitably inherit the staleness and errors of their source corpora. Consequently, ensuring the reliability and malleability of these internal…

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Knowledge editing enables targeted updates without retraining, but prior work focuses on textual or visual facts, leaving abstract auditory perceptual knowledge underexplored. We introduce SAKE, the first benchmark for editing perceptual…

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…

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Knowledge editing enables multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to efficiently update outdated or incorrect information. However, existing benchmarks primarily emphasize cognitive-level modifications while lacking a focus on deeper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaoyu Fan , Kaihang Pan , Mingze Zhou , Bosheng Qin , Juncheng Li , Shengyu Zhang , Wenqiao Zhang , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

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…

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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cutoff or fallacy issues, which means they are unaware of unseen events or generate text with incorrect facts owing to outdated/noisy data.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…

Model editing aims to correct inaccurate knowledge, update outdated information, and incorporate new data into Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for retraining. This task poses challenges in lifelong scenarios where edits must…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qizhou Chen , Chengyu Wang , Dakan Wang , Taolin Zhang , Wangyue Li , Xiaofeng He

Knowledge editing aims to change language models' performance on several special cases (i.e., editing scope) by infusing the corresponding expected knowledge into them. With the recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), knowledge…

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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven growing interest in LLM-based agents for complex planning tasks. To avoid costly agent training, many studies adopted memory mechanism that enhances LLM with offline…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wei Yang , Jinwei Xiao , Hongming Zhang , Qingyang Zhang , Yanna Wang , Bo Xu

Locate-then-Edit Knowledge Editing (LEKE) is a key technique for updating large language models (LLMs) without full retraining. However, existing methods assume a single-user setting and become inefficient in real-world multi-client…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zongkai Zhao , Guozeng Xu , Xiuhua Li , Kaiwen Wei , Jiang Zhong

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are prone to non-factual or outdated knowledge issues, which can manifest as misreading and misrecognition errors due to the complexity of multimodal knowledge. Previous benchmarks have not…

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Knowledge represented in Large Language Models (LLMs) is quite often incorrect and can also become obsolete over time. Updating knowledge via fine-tuning is computationally resource-hungry and not reliable, and so knowledge editing (KE) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Weixuan Wang , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Large language models (LLMs) can effectively handle outdated information through knowledge editing. However, current approaches face two key limitations: (I) Poor generalization: Most approaches rigidly inject new knowledge without ensuring…

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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…

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Language Models (LMs) have become widely used in software engineering, especially for tasks such as code generation, where they are referred to as code LMs. These models have proven effective in generating code, making it easier for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

Knowledge editing (KE) enables precise modifications to factual content in large language models (LLMs). Existing KE methods are largely designed for dense architectures, limiting their applicability to the increasingly prevalent sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yupu Gu , Rongzhe Wei , Andy Zhu , Pan Li

This study investigates the impact of localized updates to large language models (LLMs), specifically in the context of knowledge editing - a task aimed at incorporating or modifying specific facts without altering broader model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Akshat Gupta , Christine Fang , Atahan Ozdemir , Maochuan Lu , Ahmed Alaa , Thomas Hartvigsen , Gopala Anumanchipalli

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

Knowledge editing and machine unlearning are two popular approaches for large language models (LLMs) to stay up-to-date. However, the knowledge updating mechanism of LLMs remains largely unexplored due to insufficient, isolated, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yinyi Luo , Zhexian Zhou , Hao Chen , Kai Qiu , Marios Savvides , Sharon Li , Jindong Wang