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Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing

  • Hamad bin Khalifa University

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Abstract

While Knowledge Editing has been extensively studied in monolingual settings, it remains underexplored in multilingual contexts. This survey systematizes recent research on Multilingual Knowledge Editing (MKE), a growing subdomain of model editing focused on ensuring factual edits generalize reliably across languages. We present a comprehensive taxonomy of MKE methods, covering parameter-based, memory-based, fine-tuning, and hypernetwork approaches. We survey available benchmarks, summarize key findings on method effectiveness and transfer patterns, and identify persistent challenges such as cross-lingual propagation, language anisotropy, and limited evaluation for low-resource and culturally specific languages. We also discuss broader concerns such as stability and scalability of multilingual edits. Our analysis consolidates a rapidly evolving area and lays the groundwork for future progress in editable language-aware LLMs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsChristos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages15906-15918
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9798891763326
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 4 Nov 20259 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period4/11/259/11/25

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