Papers by Weijia Zhao

8 papers
GAN Driven Semi-distant Supervision for Relation Extraction (N19-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods for relation extraction are limited to costly hand-labeled training sets and hard to be extended to large-scale relations.
Approach: They propose a semi-distant supervision approach for relation extraction by constructing a small accurate dataset and properly leveraging numerous instances without relation labels.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves significant improvements over baselines on real-world datasets.
Active Testing: An Unbiased Evaluation Method for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for distantly supervised relation extraction suffer from low quality of test set, which leads to considerable biased performance evaluation.
Approach: They propose a method to evaluate distantly supervised relation extraction using noisy test sets and manual annotations.
Outcome: Experiments on a widely used benchmark show that the proposed method can yield approximately unbiased evaluations for distantly supervised relation extractors.
Regularized Attentive Capsule Network for Overlapped Relation Extraction (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to extract relations from distant supervision contain low-quality instances with noisy words and overlapped relations.
Approach: They propose a Regularized Attentive Capsule Network to better identify overlapped relations in informal sentences . they embed multi-head attention into the capsule network as the low-level capsules .
Outcome: Extensive experiments show that the proposed model improves relation extraction.
Design Challenges in Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing techniques for grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language do not rise to the challenges introduced by text in low-resource languages (LRL) and fail to generalize to text not taken from Wikipedia, on which they are usually trained.
Approach: They propose a cross-lingual XEL technique that uses search engines to locate and search for foreign language entries in Wikipedia.
Outcome: The proposed system shows an increase of 25% in gold candidate recall and 13% in end-to-end linking accuracy over state-of-the-art baselines.
Getting MoRE out of Mixture of Language Model Reasoning Experts (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing large language models (LLMs) have poor generalizability on question types beyond those seen in the prompt.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates specialized language models to generalize across question types that require distinct reasoning abilities.
Outcome: The proposed framework gives higher accuracy than any single specialized model on a collection of 12 QA datasets from four reasoning types.
Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies on gender bias in word embeddings focus on English . however, these studies cannot be extended to languages with morphological agreement on gender .
Approach: They propose new metrics to evaluate gender bias in word embeddings of English and Spanish . they extend existing approaches to mitigate gender bias while preserving original embeddables .
Outcome: The proposed methods reduce gender bias while preserving the original embeddings.
CreditDecoding: Accelerating Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Large Language Models with Trace Credit (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Diffusion large language models generate text through iterative denoising with bidirectional attention, enabling richer contextual dependencies.
Approach: They propose a training-free parallel decoding method that fuses Trace Credit with current logits to boost the confidence of correct but underconfident tokens.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 5.48 times speedup with +0.48 accuracy on LLaDA-8B and is orthogonal to mainstream inference optimizations.

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