Challenge: Existing knowledge editing methods are static and fail to propagate edits across languages.
Approach: They propose a KE method that dynamically retrieves only knowledge relevant to a given query and edits it to maintain cross-lingual consistency.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms static KE methods on a multilingual dataset with semantically similar but irrelevant prompts.

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