ACL 2026 Paper: LLMs Stick to Old Knowledge Despite New Information
mdredze · x · 2026-08-19
This paper presented at ACL 2026 finds that LLMs often continue to rely on information learned during pre-training, even when instructed to use new information. The study explores the update mechanisms and limitations when models face knowledge conflicts, revealing the difficulty in effectively overriding existing memory in RAG or in-context learning scenarios.
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