Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge Editing is a growing subdomain of model editing focused on ensuring factual edits generalize across languages. |
| Approach: | They present a taxonomy of multilingual knowledge editing methods and benchmarks . authors summarize key findings on method effectiveness and transfer patterns . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods are compared against available benchmarks and benchmark datasets. |
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