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Synthetic Worlds for Temporal Evaluation and Knowledge Updating in LLMs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Large language models (LLMs) rely on static pretraining corpora, causing their knowledge to become outdated over time. Existing approaches for evaluating knowledge edits either suffer from rapid contamination or rely on counterfactual edits that conflict with rigid existing knowledge. In this work, we propose a synthetic, simulation-driven framework for studying knowledge insertion in LLMs. We introduce {\sc ParallelEvents}, a benchmark of fictional yet realistic future worlds that generates coherent event trajectories for controlled evaluation, avoiding contamination while preserving consiste

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