Challenge: Existing methods to modify LMs suffer from sub-optimal locality, where irrelevant neighborhood examples can be adversely influenced.
Approach: They propose to use a model editing method to modify specific examples in LMs to improve locality and reasoning capability by directing the hidden state of edit example towards spaces where semantics are sparse.
Outcome: The proposed method improves locality and reasoning capability on two datasets.

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