CoME: An Unlearning-based Approach to Conflict-free Model Editing (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) often retain outdated or incorrect information from pre-training, which undermines their reliability. |
| Approach: | They propose a conflict-free model editing framework that selectively removes outdated knowledge from LLMs to improve their accuracy and reliability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves both editing accuracy and model reliability when applied to existing editing methods. |
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