arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 28

Parallel Universes for Temporal Evaluation and Knowledge Updating in LLMs

The paper introduces PARALLELEVENTS, a benchmark that simulates realistic future event trajectories to evaluate knowledge updates in large language models without contaminating data or conflicting with existing knowledge. It also presents SYNAPSE, a training framework that uses model-generated synthetic data for instruction tuning, enabling scalable integration of new knowledge. SYNAPSE achieves a 14.23‑point improvement in QA accuracy over previous methods, demonstrating the effectiveness of simulation‑based synthetic training for coherent knowledge insertion.

By Jonathan Zheng, Zirui Shao, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Scaling Point-in-Time Language Models

arXiv:2607. 11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models trained on unrestricted internet corpora inevitably embed information from the future, introducing lookahead bias that compromises the validity of backtests and causal inference in finance and the social sciences.

By Bryan Kelly, Semyon Malamud, Johannes Schwab, Teng Andrea Xu