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Large language models can produce toxic or inappropriate text even for benign inputs, creating risks when deployed at scale. Detoxification is therefore important for safety and user trust, particularly when we want to reduce harmful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Baturay Saglam , Dionysis Kalogerias

Methods for knowledge editing and unlearning in large language models seek to edit or remove undesirable knowledge or capabilities without compromising general language modeling performance. This work investigates how mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Phillip Guo , Aaquib Syed , Abhay Sheshadri , Aidan Ewart , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential as generalist assistants, showcasing powerful task understanding and problem-solving capabilities. To deploy LLMs as AI assistants, it is crucial that these models exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Huanqian Wang , Yang Yue , Rui Lu , Jingxin Shi , Andrew Zhao , Shenzhi Wang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Knowledge editing (KE) provides a scalable approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models without full retraining. While previous studies have demonstrated effectiveness in general domains and medical QA tasks, little…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shengtao Wen , Haodong Chen , Yadong Wang , Zhongying Pan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Bo Qian , Dong Liang , Sheng-Jun Huang

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

Text detoxification has the potential to mitigate the harms of toxicity by rephrasing text to remove offensive meaning, but subtle toxicity remains challenging to tackle. We introduce MaRCo, a detoxification algorithm that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Skyler Hallinan , Alisa Liu , Yejin Choi , Maarten Sap

Pre-trained language models (LMs) are shown to easily generate toxic language. In this work, we systematically explore domain-adaptive training to reduce the toxicity of language models. We conduct this study on three dimensions: training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Boxin Wang , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , Peng Xu , Mostofa Patwary , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bo Li , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jingcheng Deng , Zihao Wei , Liang Pang , Hanxing Ding , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

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

Text detoxification is a style transfer task of creating neutral versions of toxic texts. In this paper, we use the concept of text editing to build a two-step tagging-based detoxification model using a parallel corpus of Russian texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilya Gusev

Text detoxification is a conditional text generation task aiming to remove offensive content from toxic text. It is highly useful for online forums and social media, where offensive content is frequently encountered. Intuitively, there are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Griffin Floto , Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour , Parsa Farinneya , Zhenwei Tang , Ali Pesaranghader , Manasa Bharadwaj , Scott Sanner

Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022, digital abusive speech remains a significant issue. One potential…

Collaborative learning of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a new paradigm for utilizing private data from different parties to guarantee efficiency and privacy. Meanwhile, Knowledge Editing (KE) for LLMs has also garnered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiamu Zheng , Jinghuai Zhang , Tianyu Du , Xuhong Zhang , Jianwei Yin , Tao Lin

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 (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

Toxicity is a prevalent social behavior that involves the use of hate speech, offensive language, bullying, and abusive speech. While text-based approaches for toxicity detection are common, there is limited research on processing speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ahlam Husni Abu Nada , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

As social-media platforms emerge and evolve faster than the regulations meant to oversee them, automated detoxification might serve as a timely tool for moderators to enforce safe discourse at scale. We here describe our submission to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Trung Duc Anh Dang , Ferdinando Pio D'Elia

Efficient knowledge editing of large language models is crucial for replacing obsolete information or incorporating specialized knowledge on a large scale. However, previous methods implicitly assume that knowledge is localized and isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zihao Wei , Liang Pang , Hanxing Ding , Jingcheng Deng , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

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

As large language models become integral to high-stakes applications, ensuring their robustness and fairness is critical. Despite their success, large language models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where small perturbations, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Danqing Chen , Tobias Ladner , Ahmed Rayen Mhadhbi , Matthias Althoff