Knowledge Editing through Chain-of-Thought

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17727v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:17:50 GMT
• Title: Knowledge Editing through Chain-of-Thought
• Authors: Changyue Wang, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Keeping these models up-to-date with evolving world knowledge remains a significant challenge due to the high costs of frequent retraining. We propose EditCoT, a novel knowledge editing framework that flexibly and efficiently updates LLMs across various tasks without retraining.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, keeping these models up-to-date with evolving world knowledge remains a significant challenge due to the high costs of frequent retraining. To address this challenge, knowledge editing techniques have emerged to update LLMs with new information without rebuilding the model from scratch. Among these, the in-context editing paradigm stands out for its effectiveness in integrating new knowledge while preserving the model's original capabilities. Despite its potential, existing in-context knowledge editing methods are often task-specific, focusing primarily on multi-hop QA tasks using structured knowledge triples. Moreover, their reliance on few-shot prompting for task decomposition makes them unstable and less effective in generalizing across diverse tasks. In response to these limitations, we propose EditCoT, a novel knowledge editing framework that flexibly and efficiently updates LLMs across various tasks without retraining. EditCoT works by generating a chain-of-thought (CoT) for a given input and then iteratively refining this CoT process using a CoT editor based on updated knowledge. We evaluate EditCoT across a diverse range of benchmarks, covering multiple languages and tasks. The results demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance while offering superior generalization, effectiveness, and stability compared to existing methods, marking a significant advancement in the field of knowledge updating. Code and data are available at: https://github.com/bebr2/EditCoT.

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