Papers by Chenxiao Li
Probing Relative Interaction and Dynamic Calibration in Multi-modal Entity Alignment (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current methods for multi-modal entity alignment ignore relative interactions between modalities and the accuracy of weights. |
| Approach: | They propose a relative interaction and calibration framework for multi-modal entity alignment that uses attention mechanisms to perceive the uncertainty of the weight for each modality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines across 5 datasets and 23 settings. |
Breaking the Noise Barrier: LLM-Guided Semantic Filtering and Enhancement for Multi-Modal Entity Alignment (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to identify equivalent entities between two multimodal knowledge graphs. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel LLMguided MMEA framework that prioritizes noise reduction before fusion. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework prioritizes noise reduction before fusion and improves semantics on the noisy FB YG dataset. |
To Answer or Not To Answer? Improving Machine Reading Comprehension Model with Span-based Contrastive Learning (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models fail to recognize answerable questions due to subtle literal changes . MRC models are forced to perceive crucial semantic changes from slight literal differences. |
| Approach: | They propose a span-based method of Contrastive Learning which explicitly contrasts answerable questions with their answerable counterparts at the answer span level. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves baselines significantly and is an effective way to utilize generated questions. |
Exploring the Impacts of Feature Fusion Strategy in Multi-modal Entity Alignment (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to merge multi-modal knowledge only use one fusion strategy . however, the impact of the fusion on individual entities could be ignored . |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive multi-modal feature fusion strategy for entity alignment that selects the optimal entity-level feature blending strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance compared to models using the same modality on a dataset with multiple inconsistent images and styles. |
Defenses Against Prompt Attacks Learn Surface Heuristics (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications . recent defenses rely on supervised fine-tuning with benign and malicious labels . position bias arises when benign content placed later in a prompt is rejected at much higher rates . |
| Approach: | They analyze three recurring shortcut behaviors induced by supervised fine-tuning . position bias arises when benign content placed later in a prompt is rejected . token trigger bias occurs when strings common in attack data raise rejection probability . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model overrides intended logic when adversarial instructions appear . the proposed model has low rejection rates but narrow correlations in defense data . |