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Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing

Computation and Language 2025-11-04 v2

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, identify challenges in cross-lingual propagation, and highlight open problems related to language anisotropy, evaluation coverage, and edit scalability. Our analysis consolidates a rapidly evolving area and lays the groundwork for future progress in editable language-aware LLMs.

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@article{arxiv.2505.14393,
  title  = {Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing},
  author = {Nadir Durrani and Basel Mousi and Fahim Dalvi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14393},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted at EMNLP 2025