Visual-Oriented Fine-Grained Knowledge Editing for MultiModal Large Language Models

Existing knowledge editing works for MultiModal Large Language Models primarily focus on text-oriented, coarse-grained scenarios, where modifying textual content alone is sufficient. As a result, they fail to capture the unique challenges of multimodal editing, particularly when visual information is central to knowledge representation. In this paper, we introduce a visual-oriented, fine-grained multimodal knowledge editing task that targets precise modifications in images containing multiple interacting entities. To support this, we propose the Fine-Grained Visual Knowledge Editing (FGVEdit) benchmark, designed to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of multimodal editing at a granular level. To address this challenge, we present the Multimodal Scope Classifier-based Knowledge Editor (MSCKE), a new framework that leverages a multimodal scope classifier to integrate both textual and visual information. By accurately identifying and updating knowledge localized within images, MSCKE ensures precise editing while preserving unrelated content. Extensive experiments on the FGVEdit benchmark highlight the complexity of this new task and demonstrate that existing methods struggle with fine-grained multimodal editing. Our results highlight MSCKE as a scalable and promising framework for advancing multimodal knowledge editing.