Papers by Yanfang Ye
Interpretable Graph-Language Modeling for Detecting Youth Illicit Drug Use (2026.findings-eacl)
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Yiyang Li, Zehong Wang, Zhengqing Yuan, Zheyuan Zhang, Keerthiram Murugesan, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
| Challenge: | Illicit drug use among teens and young adults remains a public health concern . existing models ignore latent and interconnected structures among survey variables . |
| Approach: | They propose a joint graph-language modeling framework to detect illicit drug use among TYAs . they use large-scale surveys such as the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health to analyze data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models on YRBS and NSDUH datasets in predictive accuracy. |
PsyScam: A Benchmark for Psychological Techniques in Real-World Scams (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | PTs are employed by scammers to manipulate victims and cause lasting psychological trauma. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to capture the PTs employed in real-worldscam reports and investigate how LLMs can be utilized to generate variants of scams based on the pts and the contexts provided by thesescams. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate variants of scams based on the PTs employed in real-world scam reports and the contexts provided by these scams. |
AgentRouter: A Knowledge-Graph-Guided LLM Router for Collaborative Multi-Agent Question Answering (2026.acl-long)
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Zheyuan Zhang, Kaiwen Shi, Zhengqing Yuan, Zehong Wang, Tianyi Ma, Keerthiram Murugesan, Vincent Galassi, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to agent routing emphasize cost efficiency while overlooking the fine-grained contextual and relational structure inherent in QA tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that formulates multi-agent QA as a knowledge-graph-guided routing problem supervised by empirical performance signals. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms single-agent and ensemble baselines while generalizing across benchmarks and LLM backbones. |
NGQA: A Nutritional Graph Question Answering Benchmark for Personalized Health-aware Nutritional Reasoning (2025.acl-long)
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Zheyuan Zhang, Yiyang Li, Nhi Ha Lan Le, Zehong Wang, Tianyi Ma, Vincent Galassi, Keerthiram Murugesan, Nuno Moniz, Werner Geyer, Nitesh V Chawla, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
| Challenge: | Diet plays a critical role in human health, but tailoring dietary reasoning to individual health conditions remains a challenge. |
| Approach: | a new benchmark evaluates dietary reasoning using a national health survey data set. |
| Outcome: | The NGQA benchmark evaluates dietary reasoning across three tasks using a set of question complexity settings and baseline models. |
LLM-Empowered Class Imbalanced Graph Prompt Learning for Online Drug Trafficking Detection (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to combat illicit drug trafficking are impractical due to the scarcity of labeled samples and imbalance of classes. |
| Approach: | They propose a Large Language Model-empowered Heterogeneous Graph Prompt Learning framework for illicit drug trafficking detection that leverages LLM to facilitate heterogeneous graph neural networks to effectively identify minority classes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is able to identify minority classes in class-imbalanced scenarios. |
MAPRO: Recasting Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization as Maximum a Posteriori Inference (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that optimizes MAS prompts as a maximum a posteriori problem and then iteratively updates agent prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses manual and automated benchmarks in multiple tasks and provides general guidelines for building more reliable and principled multi-agent systems in the future. |
What Makes LLMs Effective Sequential Recommenders? A Study on Preference Intensity and Temporal Context (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing preference-alignment approaches rely on binary pairwise comparisons, overlooking preference intensity and temporal context. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified preference optimization framework that maps both explicit and implicit feedback into a common preference signal and constructs adaptive reward margins that jointly account for preference intensity and interaction recency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art recommendations while maintaining behavioral patterns aligned with human decision-making. |
PolicyLLM: Towards Excellent Comprehension of Public Policy for Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Han Bao, Penghao Zhang, Yue Huang, Zhengqing Yuan, Yanchi Ru, SU Rui, Yujun Zhou, Xiangqi Wang, Kehan Guo, Nitesh V Chawla, Yanfang Ye, Xiangliang Zhang
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-world decision-making, but their ability to comprehend and reason about policy-related content remains underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual benchmark evaluating policy comprehension comprising 21K cases across a broad spectrum of policy areas. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows stronger performance on application-oriented policy tasks than on memorization or conceptual understanding, and yields the highest accuracy on structured reasoning tasks. |
NG-Router: Graph-Supervised Multi-Agent Collaboration for Nutrition Question Answering (2026.eacl-long)
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Kaiwen Shi, Zheyuan Zhang, Zhengqing Yuan, Keerthiram Murugesan, Vincent Galassi, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
| Challenge: | Existing methods for nutrition question answering face limited reasoning capacity and contextual overload . poor dietary patterns are associated with more than 11 million deaths in 2017 . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enables supervised multi-agent collaboration for nutritional QA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms single-agent and ensemble baselines in multi-agency reasoning tasks. |
Grape: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Passage Reader for Open-domain Question Answering (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Open-domain question answering (QA) models employ a retriever-reader pipeline . however, state-of-the-art readers fail to capture complex relationships between entities . |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge graph enhanced passage reader that captures entities in questions and retrieved passages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed knowledge graph enhanced passage reader improves on open-domain QA benchmarks by up to 2.2 exact match scores. |
Can LLMs Convert Graphs to Text-Attributed Graphs? (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to model graph-structured data are limited by the availability of text-attributed graph data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to convert existing graphs into text-attributed graphs using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing approaches that manually design node features on text-free graphs. |