ChroKnowledge: Unveiling Chronological Knowledge of Language Models in Multiple Domains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09870v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:08:49 GMT
• Title: ChroKnowledge: Unveiling Chronological Knowledge of Language Models in Multiple Domains
• Authors: Yein Park, Chanwoong Yoon, Jungwoo Park, Donghyeon Lee, Minbyul Jeong, Jaewoo Kang,
• Abstract summary: We present ChroKnowledge, a novel sampling-based framework for evaluating and updating large language models' non-parametric chronological knowledge. Our framework successfully updates the overall knowledge across the entire timeline in both the biomedical domain and the general domain. We perform a comprehensive analysis based on temporal characteristics of ChroKnowPrompt and validate the potential of various models to elicit intrinsic temporal knowledge.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have significantly impacted many aspects of our lives. However, assessing and ensuring their chronological knowledge remains challenging. Existing approaches fall short in addressing the accumulative nature of knowledge, often relying on a single time stamp. To overcome this, we introduce ChroKnowBench, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate chronologically accumulated knowledge across three key aspects: multiple domains, time dependency, temporal state. Our benchmark distinguishes between knowledge that evolves (e.g., scientific discoveries, amended laws) and knowledge that remain constant (e.g., mathematical truths, commonsense facts). Building on this benchmark, we present ChroKnowledge (Chronological Categorization of Knowledge), a novel sampling-based framework for evaluating and updating LLMs' non-parametric chronological knowledge. Our evaluation shows: (1) The ability of eliciting temporal knowledge varies depending on the data format that model was trained on. (2) LLMs partially recall knowledge or show a cut-off at temporal boundaries rather than recalling all aspects of knowledge correctly. Thus, we apply our ChroKnowPrompt, an in-depth prompting to elicit chronological knowledge by traversing step-by-step through the surrounding time spans. We observe that our framework successfully updates the overall knowledge across the entire timeline in both the biomedical domain (+11.9%) and the general domain (+2.8%), demonstrating its effectiveness in refining temporal knowledge. This non-parametric approach also enables knowledge updates not only in open-source models but also in proprietary LLMs, ensuring comprehensive applicability across model types. We perform a comprehensive analysis based on temporal characteristics of ChroKnowPrompt and validate the potential of various models to elicit intrinsic temporal knowledge through our method.

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