Lune

EMNLP2025Top-tier venue

Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing

Nadir Durrani, Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi

2025Year
1Top-tier citations

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.

Ask about this paper

Your agent reads all of it.

Lune indexed this paper to the last equation, along with the top-tier papers that cite it. Ask a question and the answer quotes them.

Questions to start from

Your agent calls

Luneget_paper_fulltext

Ask in Lune

Free to start. No credit card required.

lune papers fulltext d70b5927-ce78-405e-a3e2-418b06c85c6d

Cited by top-tier papers1

Ask how each one uses it

Builds on16

Related papers

Dusk over the sea between two cliffs drawn in fine vertical lines