Papers by Ke Chang
Magnet: Multi-turn Tool-use Data Synthesis and Distillation via Graph Translation (2025.acl-long)
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Fan Yin, Zifeng Wang, I-Hung Hsu, Jun Yan, Ke Jiang, Yanfei Chen, Jindong Gu, Long Le, Kai-Wei Chang, Chen-Yu Lee, Hamid Palangi, Tomas Pfister
| Challenge: | Large language models have been shown to be effective in multi-turn interactions . however, their performance may be limited in complex, multi-turned interactions involving users and multiple tools. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for synthesizing high-quality training trajectories to enhance the function calling capability of large language model agents in multi-turn conversations with humans. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the teacher model by 68.01 on BFCL-v3 and 73.30 on ToolQuery. |
One QuantLLM for ALL: Fine-tuning Quantized LLMs Once for Efficient Deployments (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Quantization has shown promise for Large Language Models, but current methods require lengthy training to alleviate quantization loss. |
| Approach: | They propose to decouple weights and incorporate Low-Rank adapters to reduce weight sharing . they validate the approach on LLaMA2 families and Mistral on downstream evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach shows high performance while reducing deployment time faced with multiple scenarios. |
SciAssess: Benchmarking LLM Proficiency in Scientific Literature Analysis (2025.findings-naacl)
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Hengxing Cai, Xiaochen Cai, Junhan Chang, Sihang Li, Lin Yao, Wang Changxin, Zhifeng Gao, Hongshuai Wang, Li Yongge, Mujie Lin, Shuwen Yang, Jiankun Wang, Mingjun Xu, Jin Huang, Xi Fang, Jiaxi Zhuang, Yuqi Yin, Yaqi Li, Changhong Chen, Zheng Cheng, Zifeng Zhao, Linfeng Zhang, Guolin Ke
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks fail to adequately evaluate the proficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) Existing standards do not cover the skills needed to evaluate LLMs in scientific literature analysis. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate the proficiency of large language models in scientific literature analysis. |
| Outcome: | SciAssess evaluates 11 LLMs on multiple tasks across scientific fields. |
From Implicit Graph Encoding to Explicit Evidence: A Training-Free LLM Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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Guo Tang, Ke Cheng, Huiming Fan, Heng Chang, Wenxiang Zheng, Xianhao Ou, Junjia Xiang, Ming Liu, Yujun Zhou, Li Lanyu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with implicit modality alignment and suboptimal graph linearization. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free, test-time adaptive framework that reframes TKG prediction as explicit evidence-driven reasoning. |
| Outcome: | ExE-LLM outperforms fully trained graph neural networks on four benchmarks . it achieves SOTA performance in inductive settings, significantly outperforming fully trained neural networks . |
McBE: A Multi-task Chinese Bias Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets on bias evaluation for large language models focus on English and North American culture and are limited to one task. |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate Chinese language models' biases from multiple perspectives using a multi-task Chinese Bias Evaluation Benchmark. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model covers 12, 82 subcategories and 5 evaluation tasks covering a wide range of categories and content diversity. |
Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Machine Translation Pairs (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction are not available. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to generate error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction based on machine translation models of different qualities . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can generate multiple error-corrected sentence pairs from Chinese to English text. |
Multi-modal Semantic Understanding with Contrastive Cross-modal Feature Alignment (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Current work on multi-modal semantic understanding primarily exploits a dual-encoder structure to separate image and text, but fails to learn cross-modal feature alignment. |
| Approach: | They propose a CLIP-guided contrastive-learning-based architecture to perform multi-modal feature alignment by projecting features from different modalities into a unified deep space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on sarcasm detection and sentiment analysis tasks and is simple to implement without using task-specific external knowledge. |