| Challenge: | despite near-perfect results, effectiveness of model editing in real-world applications remains unclear. |
| Approach: | They propose QAEdit and WILD to better reflect real-world use of model editing . they propose a benchmark aligned with widely used question answering datasets and a task-agnostic evaluation framework . |
| Outcome: | The proposed QAEdit benchmark and WILD evaluation framework show that current models perform worse than previously reported. |
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