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Knowledge editing aims to update outdated or incorrect knowledge in large language models (LLMs). However, current knowledge editing methods have limited scalability for lifelong editing. This study explores the fundamental reason why…

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The storage and recall of factual associations in auto-regressive transformer language models (LMs) have drawn a great deal of attention, inspiring knowledge editing by directly modifying the located model weights. Most editing works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xiyu Liu , Zhengxiao Liu , Naibin Gu , Zheng Lin , Wanli Ma , Ji Xiang , Weiping Wang

As the knowledge of large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated over time, there is a growing need for efficient methods to update them, especially when injecting proprietary information. Our study reveals that comprehension-intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Essa Jan , Moiz Ali , Muhammad Saram Hassan , Fareed Zaffar , Yasir Zaki

Large language Model (LLM) unlearning, i.e., selectively removing information from LLMs, is vital for responsible model deployment. Differently, LLM knowledge editing aims to modify LLM knowledge instead of removing it. Though editing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zexi Li , Xiangzhu Wang , William F. Shen , Meghdad Kurmanji , Xinchi Qiu , Dongqi Cai , Chao Wu , Nicholas D. Lane

Large Language Models store extensive factual knowledge acquired during large-scale pre-training. However, this knowledge is inherently static, reflecting only the state of the world at the time of training. Knowledge editing has emerged as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Geunyeong Jeong , Juoh Sun , Seonghee Lee , Harksoo Kim

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kaihang Pan , Zhaoyu Fan , Juncheng Li , Qifan Yu , Hao Fei , Siliang Tang , Richang Hong , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun

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

Adjusting the outdated knowledge of large language models (LLMs) after deployment remains a major challenge. This difficulty has spurred the development of knowledge editing, which seeks to accurately and efficiently modify a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pengfei Cao , Zeao Ji , Daojian Zeng , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit hallucinations due to incorrect or outdated knowledge. Hence, model editing methods have emerged to enable targeted knowledge updates. To achieve this, a prevailing paradigm is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Junfeng Fang , Houcheng Jiang , Kun Wang , Yunshan Ma , Shi Jie , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Tat-seng Chua

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast amounts of pre-trained knowledge in their parameters, but updating them as real-world information evolves remains a challenge. Existing methodologies and benchmarks primarily target entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Aochong Oliver Li , Tanya Goyal

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

The factual knowledge acquired during pre-training and stored in the parameters of Language Models (LMs) can be useful in downstream tasks (e.g., question answering or textual inference). However, some facts can be incorrectly induced or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Nicola De Cao , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yinjie Cheng , Paul Youssef , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer , Zhixue Zhao

Existing methods in Multimodal Knowledge Editing (MKE) have advanced the ability to correct outdated or inaccurate knowledge in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, they exhibit a critical limitation: while effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Leijiang Gu , Zhen Zeng , Feng Li , Xinjian Gao , Zenglin Shi

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

Previous studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) like GPTs store massive factual knowledge in their parameters. However, the stored knowledge could be false or out-dated. Traditional knowledge editing methods refine LLMs via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ce Zheng , Lei Li , Qingxiu Dong , Yuxuan Fan , Zhiyong Wu , Jingjing Xu , Baobao Chang

Large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge during pre-training, but over time, this knowledge may become incorrect or outdated, necessitating updates after training. Knowledge editing techniques address this issue without the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuchen Cai , Ding Cao

Large language models (LLMs) face challenges with internal knowledge inaccuracies and outdated information. Knowledge editing has emerged as a pivotal approach to mitigate these issues. Although current knowledge editing techniques exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mengqi Zhang , Bowen Fang , Qiang Liu , Pengjie Ren , Shu Wu , Zhumin Chen , Liang Wang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jiaan Wang , Yunlong Liang , Zengkui Sun , Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Fandong Meng