FedAlphaEdit: Null-Space-Aligned Merging for Collaborative Knowledge Editing

arXiv:2610.11033 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 8 tables. Includes appendices (proofs, implementation reconciliation, experimental details). Code: https://github.com/soutasuga/FedAlphaEdit

Code: https://github.com/soutasuga/FedAlphaEdit

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

Terminology

• alpha — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 3× in this paper
• Model Merging — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Differentially Private — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LOKI: Memory-Free Null-Space Constrained Lifelong Knowledge Editing

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