arXiv:2505.11665cs.CLcs.AI2025-05综述被引 14

不微调模型也能让大模型跨语言工作,这篇综述梳理了39种提示工程方法。

Multilingual Prompt Engineering in Large Language Models: A Survey Across NLP Tasks

  • 用自然语言提示激发多语言大模型能力,避免重复训练
  • 涵盖30个任务、250种语言,总结36篇论文中的39种提示策略
  • 适合想快速部署多语言应用的开发者和非专业用户

大语言模型在多种自然语言处理任务中表现优异,但在多语言环境下的有效性仍面临挑战。多语言提示工程成为无需大量参数微调即可提升模型跨语言能力的关键方法。本文系统梳理了过去两三年间涌现的多语言提示技术,基于覆盖约250种语言的多样化数据集,对30个跨语言NLP任务进行了分类分析。共回顾36篇相关研究,归纳出39种提示方法,涵盖所用大模型、技术分类与特定数据集上的最优方案。进一步分析了不同语系和资源水平(高资源/低资源)的语言任务分布及提示方法使用频率,揭示了跨语言性能差异的潜在规律。该综述为多语言场景下高效利用大模型提供了实用路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, ensuring their effectiveness across multiple languages presents unique challenges. Multilingual prompt engineering has emerged as a key approach to enhance LLMs' capabilities in diverse linguistic settings without requiring extensive parameter re-training or fine-tuning. With growing interest in multilingual prompt engineering over the past two to three years, researchers have explored various strategies to improve LLMs' performance across languages and NLP tasks. By crafting structured natural language prompts, researchers have successfully extracted knowledge from LLMs across different languages, making these techniques an accessible pathway for a broader audience, including those without deep expertise in machine learning, to harness the capabilities of LLMs. In this paper, we survey and categorize different multilingual prompting techniques based on the NLP tasks they address across a diverse set of datasets that collectively span around 250 languages. We further highlight the LLMs employed, present a taxonomy of approaches and discuss potential state-of-the-art (SoTA) methods for specific multilingual datasets. Additionally, we derive a range of insights across language families and resource levels (high-resource vs. low-resource), including analyses such as the distribution of NLP tasks by language resource type and the frequency of prompting methods across different language families. Our survey reviews 36 research papers covering 39 prompting techniques applied to 30 multilingual NLP tasks, with the majority of these studies published in the last two years.

多语言提示工程LLM综述

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