Temporal Attention Steering Lets LLMs Dismiss Outdated Facts
The paper defines Parametric Temporal Conflict, where models retain both old and new facts but default to the stale one. Their test‑time method, Temporal Attention Steering, detects the conflict layer and patches activations, flipping up to 85 % of outdated answers without fine‑tuning. It works on open‑weight models up to 7 B parameters.