memit-vicuna-layers-5-to-9

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Created 2026-08-25T02:59:07+00:00

MEMIT on Vicuna-7B edits layers {5, 6, 7, 8, 9} with covariance computed from 100K Wikitext samples; ROME on Vicuna-7B edits only layer 9.

Summary

MEMIT spreads its knowledge edit across five consecutive mid-to-late layers of the model, while ROME targets a single late layer, meaning the two techniques intervene at very different points in the network's reasoning chain. This matters because spreading edits over multiple layers (MEMIT) risks more collateral changes to other knowledge, whereas concentrating them in one layer (ROME) is more surgical but may limit how well the edit integrates with the model's broader representations.