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MEMoE: Enhancing Model Editing with Mixture of Experts Adaptors

arXiv 2405.19086 ↗First posted 29 May 2024cs.CLcited by 8

On the map: Mixture-of-experts → MoE large language models

Abstract (arXiv)

Model editing aims to efficiently alter the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) within a desired scope, while ensuring no adverse impact on other inputs. Recent years have witnessed various model editing methods been proposed. However, these methods either exhibit poor overall performance or struggle to strike a balance between generalization and locality. We propose MEMoE, a model editing adapter utilizing a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with a knowledge anchor routing strategy. MEMoE updates knowledge using a bypass MoE structure, keeping the original parameters unchanged to preserve the general ability of LLMs. And, the knowledge anchor routing ensures that inputs requiring similar knowledge are routed to the same expert, thereby enhancing the generalization of the updated knowledge. Experimental results show the superiority of our approach over both batch editing and sequential batch editing tasks, exhibiting exceptional overall performance alongside outstanding balance between generalization and locality. Our code will be available.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in MoE large language models, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 47 of its 58 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 May 2024.

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47 of 58 references.

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  3. 2022MoEC: Mixture of Expert Clusters19 Jul
  4. 2021GLaM: Efficient Scaling of Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts13 Dec
  5. 2020GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding30 Jun
  6. 2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer23 Jan

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  1. 2026MoEEdit: Efficient and Routing-Stable Knowledge Editing for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
  2. 2023Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models: A Survey
  3. 2026Scalable Knowledge Editing for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Tensor-Structured Updates
  4. 2024Knowledge Editing through Chain-of-Thought
  5. 2026Generalizable Lifelong Model Editing via Preference Optimization
  6. 2025Efficiently Editing Mixture-of-Experts Models with Compressed Experts
  7. 2025ExpertWeave: Efficiently Serving Expert-Specialized Fine-Tuned Adapters at Scale
  8. 2024Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing