Current approaches of knowledge editing struggle to effectively propagate updates to interconnected facts.
In this work, we delve into the barriers that hinder the appropriate propagation of updated knowledge within these models for accurate reasoning.
To support our analysis, we introduce a novel reasoning-based benchmark –ReCoE(Reasoning-basedCounterfactualEditing dataset)  – which covers six common reasoning schemes in real world.
We conduct a thorough analysis of existing knowledge editing techniques, including input-augmentation, finetuning, and locate-and-edit.
We found that all model editing methods show notably low performance on this dataset, especially in certain reasoning schemes.
Our analysis over the chain-of-thought generation of edited models further uncover key reasons behind the inadequacy of existing knowledge editing methods from a reasoning standpoint, involving aspects onfact-wise editing,fact recallability, andcoherencein generation. We will make our benchmark publicly available.