AI RESEARCH
From Fact Overwriting to Knowledge Evolution: Causal Editing via On-Policy Self-Distillation
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.28303v1 Announce Type: new While Knowledge Editing (KE) enables efficient updates, its dominant Static Fact Overwriting paradigm treats LLMs as discrete databases, forcibly injecting isolated facts. Fracturing pre-trained logical topologies, this triggers Epistemic Dissonance -- a pathology where un-evolved legacy priors force the model to explicitly negate the injected update. Idealized interventions reveal that this is an inherent structural flaw rather than mere algorithmic noise, with a zero-distortion proxy yielding a catastrophic 95.6% self-refutation rate.