@inproceedings{hoelscher-obermaier-etal-2023-detecting,
    title = "Detecting Edit Failures In Large Language Models: An Improved Specificity Benchmark",
    author = "Hoelscher-Obermaier, Jason  and
      Persson, Julia  and
      Kran, Esben  and
      Konstas, Ioannis  and
      Barez, Fazl",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.733",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.733",
    pages = "11548--11559",
    abstract = "Recent model editing techniques promise to mitigate the problem of memorizing false or outdated associations during LLM training. However, we show that these techniques can introduce large unwanted side effects which are not detected by existing specificity benchmarks. We extend the existing CounterFact benchmark to include a dynamic component and dub our benchmark CounterFact+. Additionally, we extend the metrics used for measuring specificity by a principled KL divergence-based metric. We use this improved benchmark to evaluate recent model editing techniques and find that they suffer from low specificity. Our findings highlight the need for improved specificity benchmarks that identify and prevent unwanted side effects.",
}

Recent model editing techniques promise to mitigate the problem of memorizing false or outdated associations during LLM training. However, we show that these techniques can introduce large unwanted side effects which are not detected by existing specificity benchmarks. We extend the existing CounterFact benchmark to include a dynamic component and dub our benchmark CounterFact+. Additionally, we extend the metrics used for measuring specificity by a principled KL divergence-based metric. We use this improved benchmark to evaluate recent model editing techniques and find that they suffer from low specificity. Our findings highlight the need for improved specificity benchmarks that identify and prevent unwanted side effects.
Hoelscher-Obermaier, Jason Persson, Julia Kran, Esben Konstas, Ioannis Barez, Fazl
Detecting Edit Failures In Large Language Models: An Improved Specificity Benchmark