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Large language models (LLMs) are pivotal in advancing natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their efficacy is hampered by inaccuracies and outdated knowledge. Model editing emerges as a promising solution to address these challenges.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Mengqi Zhang , Xiaotian Ye , Qiang Liu , Pengjie Ren , Shu Wu , Zhumin 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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yuxin Jiang , Yufei Wang , Chuhan Wu , Wanjun Zhong , Xingshan Zeng , Jiahui Gao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Ruiming Tang , Qun Liu , Wei Wang

In a rapidly evolving world where information updates swiftly, knowledge in large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated quickly. Retraining LLMs is not a cost-effective option, making knowledge editing (KE) without modifying parameters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yi Liu , Xiangrong Zhu , Xiangyu Liu , Wei Wei , Wei Hu

Large language models (LLMs) can effectively handle outdated information through knowledge editing.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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jinhu Fu , Yan Bai , Longzhu He , Yihang Lou , Yanxiao Zhao , Li Sun , Sen Su

Recently, knowledge editing (KE) has emerged as a promising approach to update specific facts in Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for full retraining. Despite the effectiveness in general-domain benchmarks, their applicability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shigeng Chen , Linhao Luo , Zhangchi Qiu , Yanan Cao , Carl Yang , Shirui Pan

Knowledge Editing, which efficiently modifies the knowledge in large language models, has gathered great attention. Current benchmarks primarily use multi-hop question answering to assess and analyze newly injected or updated knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Keyuan Cheng , Zijian Kan , Zhixian He , Zhuoran Zhang , Muhammad Asif Ali , Ke Xu , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but they also pose risks related to the generation of toxic or harmful content. This work introduces Precision Knowledge Editing (PKE), an advanced technique that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuying Li , Zhuo Li , Yuji Kosuga , Yasuhiro Yoshida , Victor Bian

Knowledge editing aims to update the embedded knowledge within Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing approaches, whether through parameter modification or external memory integration, often suffer from inconsistent evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Guoxiu He , Xin Song , Futing Wang , Aixin Sun

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful knowledge bases yet are limited by static training data, leading to issues such as hallucinations and safety risks. Editing a model's internal knowledge through the locate-and-edit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zian Su , Ziyang Huang , Kaiyuan Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) risk retaining sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful information from their training data. Entity-level unlearning addresses this issue by removing all knowledge of a specific entity while preserving the model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xiaoqi Han , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Ru Li , Xiaoli Li , Jiye Liang , Jeff Z. Pan

Knowledge editing aims to rectify inaccuracies in large language models (LLMs) without costly retraining for outdated or erroneous knowledge. However, current knowledge editing methods primarily focus on single editing, failing to meet the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Chenhui Hu , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit flawed reasoning ability that undermines reliability. Existing approaches to improving reasoning typically treat it as a general and monolithic skill, applying broad training which is inefficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhenyu Lei , Qiong Wu , Jianxiong Dong , Yinhan He , Emily Dodwell , Yushun Dong , Jundong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown proficiency in question-answering tasks but often struggle to integrate real-time knowledge, leading to potentially outdated or inaccurate responses. This problem becomes even more challenging when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yucheng Shi , Qiaoyu Tan , Xuansheng Wu , Shaochen Zhong , Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu

Knowledge editing aims to update outdated information in Large Language Models (LLMs). A representative line of study is locate-then-edit methods, which typically employ causal tracing to identify the modules responsible for recalling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haowen Pan , Xiaozhi Wang , Yixin Cao , Zenglin Shi , Xun Yang , Juanzi Li , Meng Wang

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

Knowledge Editing (KE) is a field that studies how to modify some knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) at a low cost (compared to pre-training). Currently, performing large-scale edits on LLMs while ensuring the Reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wentao Wan , Qiqing Lao , Zhiwei Xie , Hefeng Wu , Runnan Lin , Liang Lin , Keze Wang

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) store extensive knowledge within their weights, enabling them to recall vast amount of information. However, relying on this parametric knowledge brings some limitations such as outdated information or gaps…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alessio Galatolo , Meriem Beloucif , Katie Winkle