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Large language models (LLMs) can effectively handle outdated information through knowledge editing.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

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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proficiency in question-answering tasks but often struggle to integrate real-time knowledge, leading to potentially outdated or inaccurate responses.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 (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

Large Language Models (LLMs) require efficient knowledge editing (KE) to update factual information, yet existing methods exhibit significant performance decay in multi-hop factual recall. This failure is particularly acute when edits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiayu Yang , Yuxuan Fan , Songning Lai , Shengen Wu , Jiaqi Tang , Chun Kang , Zhijiang Guo , Yutao Yue

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

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 However, errors or outdated information within these models can undermine their…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities across numerous application domains. A key challenge is to keep these models updated with latest available information, which limits the true potential of these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Muhammad Asif Ali , Nawal Daftardar , Mutayyaba Waheed , Jianbin Qin , Di Wang

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

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

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

Enabling artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, to integrate new knowledge and flexibly apply it during reasoning remains a central challenge. Existing knowledge editing approaches emphasize atomic facts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ya Gao , Kalle Kujanpää , Pekka Marttinen , Harri Valpola , Alexander Ilin

Knowledge editing has been proposed as an effective method for updating and correcting the internal knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing editing methods often struggle with complex tasks, such as multi-hop reasoning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Mengqi Zhang , Xiaotian Ye , Qiang Liu , Pengjie Ren , Shu Wu , Zhumin Chen

Multi-hop question answering (MHQA) poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the extensive knowledge demands involved. Knowledge editing, which aims to precisely modify the LLMs to incorporate specific knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yifan Lu , Yigeng Zhou , Jing Li , Yequan Wang , Xuebo Liu , Daojing He , Fangming Liu , Min Zhang

As real-world knowledge evolves, the information embedded within large language models (LLMs) can become outdated, inadequate, or erroneous. Model editing has emerged as a prominent approach for updating LLMs' knowledge with minimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Guoxiu He , Xin Song , Aixin Sun

Parameter-Preserving Knowledge Editing (PPKE) enables updating models with new information without retraining or parameter adjustment. Recent PPKE approaches used knowledge graphs (KG) to extend knowledge editing (KE) capabilities to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lingwen Deng , Yifei Han , Shijie Li , Yue Du , Bin Li

The ripple effect poses a significant challenge in knowledge editing for large language models. Namely, when a single fact is edited, the model struggles to accurately update the related facts in a sequence, which is evaluated by multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Zihao Zhao , Yuchen Yang , Yijiang Li , Yinzhi Cao

Recent advances in language model interpretability have identified circuits, critical subnetworks that replicate model behaviors, yet how knowledge is structured within these crucial subnetworks remains opaque. To gain an understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Huaizhi Ge , Frank Rudzicz , Zining Zhu

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) acquire vast knowledge from large text corpora, but this information can become outdated or inaccurate. Since retraining is computationally expensive, knowledge editing offers an efficient alternative --…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Amir Mohammad Salehoof , Ali Ramezani , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Majid Nili Ahmadabadi