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MuEdit: An efficient multi-task editing method towards inter-domain knowledge conflicts

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Briefings

MuEdit addresses knowledge conflicts in large language models by introducing a Conflict Index to quantify inter-domain geometric interference. The method uses conflict-aware ordering and dynamic low-rank approximation to mitigate these issues. Experiments across five functional domains and three backbones demonstrate that Mu-Edit significantly outperforms existing baselines in multi-task editing while maintaining general capabilities and effectiveness under incremental task arrival.

Key points

• MuEdit introduces a Conflict Index to quantify geometric interference between heterogeneous tasks in large language models.
• Mu-Edit mitigates multi-task conflicts through conflict-aware ordering and dynamic low-rank approximation to expand the null space.

Context

Large language models require frequent knowledge updates across heterogeneous domains, but existing editing methods fail when applied sequentially to multi-task settings. This finding addresses the collapse of editing methods in multi-task scenarios.

Limitations

Evidence is from an arXiv preprint (arXiv:2611.14910v1) and covers five functional domains and three backbones. Results are based on experiments conducted up to the publication date, with no data on incremental task arrival beyond the stated effectiveness.

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