AI RESEARCH
Beyond the Covariance Trap: Unlocking Generalization in Same-Subject Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.15518v1 Announce Type: new While locate-then-edit knowledge editing efficiently updates knowledge encoded within Large Language Models (LLMs), a critical generalization failure mode emerges in the practical same-subject knowledge editing scenario: models fail to recall the updated knowledge when following user instructions, despite successfully recalling it in the original edited form.