Jinqian Yang
Author directory2026
Diagnosing and Mitigating Evidence Misgrounding in Multimodal Knowledge Editing
Zhiwu Wang | Yichen Wu | Jinqian Yang | Yizhou Yang | Renzhen Wang | Qian Zhao | Deyu Meng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Zhiwu Wang | Yichen Wu | Jinqian Yang | Yizhou Yang | Renzhen Wang | Qian Zhao | Deyu Meng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Multimodal knowledge editing aims to update visually grounded facts in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) while preserving unrelated text and visual behaviors. However, standard answer-level metrics can hide evidence misgrounding: an edit may produce the target answer on the original image yet remain sensitive to incidental context rather than the intended visual evidence. To examine this issue in a controlled setting, we construct WATERBIRD-EDIT, an analysis set that decouples bird habitat labels from background context and measures whether edited predictions remain stable when the target evidence is preserved but the background changes. Motivated by this diagnosis, we propose VICE (Visual In-Context Editing), a retrieval-based framework that stores edits in external memory and applies them through visual in-context demonstrations designed to expose task-relevant evidence. Experiments on three standard benchmarks show that VICE achieves strong lifelong editing performance, while results on WATERBIRD-EDIT show that it substantially reduces sensitivity to the controlled background shifts.