ConKE: Conceptualization-Augmented Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to adjust a Large Language Model's (LLM) internal representations and parameters to correct inaccuracies and improve output consistency without incurring the computational expense of re-training the entire model.However, editing commonsense knowledge still faces difficulties, including limited knowledge coverage in existing resources, the infeasibility of annotating labels for an overabundance of commonsense knowledge, and the strict knowledge formats of current editing methods.In this paper, we address these challenges by presenting CONKE, a framework that integrates conceptualization and instantiation into the KE pipeline for LLMs to enhance their commonsense reasoning capabilities.CONKE dynamically diagnoses implausible commonsense knowledge within an LLM using another verifier LLM and augments the source knowledge to be edited with conceptualization for stronger generalizability.Experimental results demonstrate that LLMs enhanced with CONKE successfully generate commonsense knowledge with improved plausibility compared to other baselines and achieve stronger performance across multiple question answering benchmarks.Our data, code, and models are publicly available at https://github.com/HKUST- KnowComp/ConKE.
Authors: Liyu Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song
Institution: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Topic: Topic Modeling
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4412888911