Popular Knowledge Propagates More Errors in LLM Knowledge Updating

arXiv:2609.08067 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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