DOW-KE is an anchor‑free knowledge‑editing method that directly optimizes weight updates across multiple layers by backpropagating the final editing objective through the entire model. Unlike traditional locate‑then‑edit pipelines that optimize intermediate activations and then apply local weight updates—leading to a closure gap—DOW-KE ensures that what is optimized is exactly what is deployed, incorporating preservation constraints within the update parameterization. Experiments on two datasets and three models show that DOW-KE achieves the highest overall Score and neighborhood Specificity in five of six evaluated settings.
By Ran Chen, Junbo Zhang, Qianli Zhou, Xinyang Deng, Wen Jiang
The paper introduces GLIME, a lifelong model editing framework that integrates knowledge editing with preference optimization to handle continual updates in large language models. GLIME employs replay-based editing and a gradient constraint to prevent overfitting to target prompts and preserve previously edited knowledge. Experiments demonstrate that GLIME enhances knowledge generalization while maintaining editing performance and overall model capabilities.
By Dahyun Jung, Suhyune Son, Heuiseok Lim
The paper introduces ALOE, a method for knowledge editing that learns semantic addresses from paraphrases and hard negatives, aligns them with autoregressive hidden states, and embeds a gated low‑rank operator within a single MLP layer. This design allows the edited model to run in one forward pass without external retrievers or routers. Experiments on CounterFact, ZSRE, and KnowEdit show high efficacy (0.955–0.999) and locality (0.981–1.000) across 7–8B model families, with analyses indicating effective separation of edits and suppression of out‑of‑scope activation.
By Zeyan Li, Hu Xu, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv:2607. 08646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As available training data approaches its physical limit, gains from Scaling Laws have begun to diminish.
By Xinlong Zhao, Dongsheng Liu, Hengyu Zhao, Zixuan Fu, Zheng Wang, Jie Cai, Jie Zhou, Qiang Ma, Xuanhe Zhou, Xu Han, Yudong Wang, Zhiyuan Liu
arXiv:2606. 15734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual post-training enables models to absorb emerging knowledge after deployment, but repeatedly updating shared parameters can accumulate weight drift, potentially causing catastrophic forgetting and degrading general capabilities.
By Weihang Su, Jiacheng Kang, Jingyan Xu, Qingyao Ai, Jianming Long, Hanwen Zhang, Bangde Du, Xinyuan Cao, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu
arXiv:2511. 20892v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated content after being employed.
By Xuyuan Liu, Shengyu Chen, Xinshuai Dong, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Haoyu Wang, Yujun Yan, Haifeng Chen, Zhengzhang Chen
arXiv:2606. 00570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-based knowledge editing updates the internal knowledge of large language models (LLMs) via localized weight modifications and has attracted significant attention.
By Wanying Ren, Xin Song, Futing Wang, Guoxiu He, Aixin Sun
The paper introduces FOVEATED, a plug‑and‑play framework that improves atomic‑fact recall in unstructured knowledge editing (UKE) for large language models. By randomly shifting Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) positions during editing, FOVEATED creates focused views of each sentence, counteracting the context‑reliance problem where edited LLMs reproduce passages but fail to recall individual facts. Experiments show consistent gains across five editors, two LLM backbones, and three benchmarks.
By Ding Wu, Ye Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Tianci Liu
arXiv:2606. 19679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lifelong knowledge editing aims to efficiently and sequentially update language models over time, as new knowledge becomes available or when the model makes mistakes, while preserving acceptable performance on past knowledge.
By Masih Eskandar, Miquel Sirera Perell\'o, Stratis Ioannidis, Jennifer Dy
InComeS is a framework that improves large language models (LLMs) for model editing by compressing editing contexts into a key‑value cache associated with a special gist token. It adds cross‑attention modules to dynamically select the most relevant information from these gist pools, allowing efficient handling of multiple edits beyond the LLM’s context window. Experiments on diverse editing benchmarks show that InComeS enhances both effectiveness and efficiency compared to existing methods.
By Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yang Deng, Chenlong Deng, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Wai Lam
arXiv:2608. 11660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across natural language tasks, yet they are trained on static corpora and their knowledge quickly becomes outdated in a fast-changing world.
By Tianci Liu, Zihan Dong, Tianchun Li, Yi-Chung Chen, Qiming Cao, Xingchen Wang, Shiyang Wang, Zichen Miao, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Jing Gao
arXiv:2606. 10554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications that require access to up-to-date knowledge.
By Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, NDah Jean Kouagou, Hamada M. Zahera, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo