Papers with editing
Kandinsky 3: Text-to-Image Synthesis for Multifunctional Generative Framework (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Arkhipkin Vladimir, Viacheslav Vasilev, Andrei Filatov, Igor Pavlov, Julia Agafonova, Nikolai Gerasimenko, Anna Averchenkova, Evelina Mironova, Bukashkin Anton, Konstantin Kulikov, Andrey Kuznetsov, Denis Dimitrov
| Challenge: | Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models are popular for image manipulation, but also for video generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel T2I diffusion model based on latent diffusion that extends the base model for various applications. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves high quality and photorealism and is 3 times faster than the base model. |
DecorateLM: Data Engineering through Corpus Rating, Tagging, and Editing with Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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Ranchi Zhao, Zhen Thai, Yifan Zhang, Shengding Hu, Jie Zhou, Yunqi Ba, Jie Cai, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on vast datasets composed of billions of tokens harvested from diverse text sources. |
| Approach: | They propose a data engineering method to refine the pretraining corpus through data rating, tagging and editing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the quality of the pretraining corpus by enhancing 100 billion tokens of the training corpus. |
Learning to Model Editing Processes (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing sequence generation models produce outputs in one pass, usually left-to-right . current models model only a single edit step, and do not fully model editing . |
| Approach: | They propose to model editing processes, modeling the whole process of iteratively generating sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves performance on a variety of axes compared to previous models . iterative refinement and editing are central parts of human creative workflow . |
Sequentially Controlled Text Generation (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Using GPT-2, long documents can ramble and do not follow human-like writing structure. |
| Approach: | They propose a controlled text generation task that generates documents with structure . they use a news article as a dataset to test different degrees of structural awareness . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task generates documents with a structure that is human-like, but long documents lack structure. |
Layer-Aware Task Arithmetic: Disentangling Task-Specific and Instruction-Following Knowledge (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Yan-Lun Chen, Yi-Ru Wei, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chia-Mu Yu, Chun-Ying Huang, Ying-Dar Lin, Yu-Sung Wu, Wei-Bin Lee
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong task-specific capabilities through fine-tuning, but merging multiple fine- tuned models often leads to degraded performance due to overlapping instruction-following components. |
| Approach: | They propose a layer-wise approach that assigns layer-specific weights to task vectors based on their alignment with instruction-following or task-specific components. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in learning and forgetting tasks while preserving overall model utility. |
Dissecting Recall of Factual Associations in Auto-Regressive Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have focused on identifying where factual knowledge is encoded in the network, but little is known about how it is extracted from the model parameters during inference. |
| Approach: | They examine how factual associations are stored and retrieved internally in LMs . they use attention edges to identify critical points where information propagates to the prediction . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model aggregates information about subject and relation to predict the correct attribute . the model “queries” the enriched subject to extract the attribute based on the proposed model . |
The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey (2024.findings-acl)
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Davide Caffagni, Federico Cocchi, Luca Barsellotti, Nicholas Moratelli, Sara Sarto, Lorenzo Baraldi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Rita Cucchiara
| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models have led to the development of multimodal large language model. |
| Approach: | They present a review of recent visual-based Large Language Models and analyze their architectures and alignment strategies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can integrate visual and textual modalities while providing a dialogue-based interface and instruction-following capabilities. |
Bypassing Neural Evaluations for Fast Audio Editing via Adaptive Trajectory Extrapolation (2026.findings-acl)
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Xiaoqian Liu, Zhengkun Ge, Jianjin Wang, Haoran Zhang, Yuan Ge, Kaiyan Chang, Chen Xu, Tong Xiao, Zhengtao Yu, Linfeng Zhang, JingBo Zhu
| Challenge: | Recent advances in audio diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-audio editing via inversion techniques, but these models typically rely on dense, fixed-step sampling trajectories to maintain structural integrity. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-agnostic Adaptive Trajectory Extrapolation framework that accelerates inversion-based editing process by dynamically evaluating only the most critical generative phases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves a 3.9 speedup with negligible loss in fidelity. |
Commonsense Knowledge Editing Based on Free-Text in LLMs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing methods focus on editing triple-based facts such as entity-relation pairs and events (multiple triplets). |
| Approach: | They propose a Knowledge Localization for Free-Text method which uses a Dynamics-aware Module to locate the parameter positions corresponding to commonsense knowledge and a knowledge editing module to update knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exploits the potential of the MLP and Attention layers and edits commonsense knowledge based on free-text. |
MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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Weikang Shi, Aldrich Yu, Rongyao Fang, Houxing Ren, Ke Wang, Aojun Zhou, Changyao Tian, Xinyu Fu, Yuxuan Hu, Zimu Lu, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu, Rui Liu, Hongsheng Li
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to visual chain-of-thought are limited by external tools or fail to generate high-fidelity diagrams. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to enable large multimodal models with VCoT capabilities . they pre-train a model on a 15.2M-pair corpus and teach it how to leverage visual aids . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework unlocks complex, human-like visual reasoning in large language models . it pre-trains the model on a 15.2M-pair corpus and fine-tunes it on MathCanvas-Instruct . |
LDEDE: LRP-Driven Efficient Detection and Editing Framework for LLM Privacy Neurons (2026.findings-acl)
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Zhao Zhengyuan, Cao Lifeng, null Sunhaodong, Shi Haotian, Du Xuehui, Liu Aodi, Niu Lanjie, Yang Xiaocheng
| Challenge: | Existing privacy protection methods fail to cover context-dependent sensitive information and are prone to performance degradation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Layer-wise Relevance Propagation-driven framework for efficient privacy neuron detection and editing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 80% higher efficiency than gradient attribution methods while reducing leakage risks of Phone, Email, and medical privacy by 42.7%–73.5% on average and cutting computational time by 60%–90%. |