Papers by Yubo Liu
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge base population systems require a machine translation task to generate multiple facts, but the fact order is not considered. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge base population task that aims to discover facts about entities from texts and expand a KB with these facts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed networks achieve state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance on two benchmark datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are developing but lack external feedback . there is no clear on how to select reward models for agents . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate agent reward modeling ability in MLLMs . they use multiple dimensions and real-world agent scenarios evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates agent performance in multimodal large language models . it covers perception, planning, and safety with 7 scenarios and is highly difficult and high-quality . |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on improving the overall performance of an ED model, but few consider the robustness of an existing model. |
| Approach: | They propose a new training mechanism that can effectively mine context-specific patterns for learning and robustify an ED model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can learn a complementary predictive bias with most ED models that use full context for feature learning. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event detection require predefined schemas, but manual defining is expensive and labor-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to achieve event clustering, hierarchy expansion and type naming . they propose 'neighbor Contrastive Clustering' module and a Hierarchy-Aware Linking module . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline methods on three datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing work evaluates the factuality of large language models on in-domain (ID) datasets and the factuality on out-of-domain datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enhances model’s awareness of factuality at the granularity of individual facts and propose 'Atomic Preference Enhanced Factuality Tuning' this framework enhances the model’ s awareness and accuracy of factual information at the level of individual factual facts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves model performance by an average of on ID and OOD datasets, which is highly effective. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for continual few-shot event detection use labeled data, but in real-world applications, new event types emerge continually. |
| Approach: | They propose a memory-based framework for continual few-shot event detection . they incorporate prototypical augmentation into the memory set to memorize previous event types . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods in multiple continual few-shot event detection tasks. |
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| Challenge: | Existing crowd annotation tools for named entity recognition (NER) focus on efficiency and don't consider consistency of datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a crowd annotation platform for Chinese named entity recognition (NER) CroAno provides a systematic solution for improving label consistency of Chinese NER datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed platform improves label consistency of Chinese NER datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Causality explanation generation is a generative task that aims to explain why a given cause-effect pair is true using natural language. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework with role-playing and iterative feedback for causality explanation generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is superior to existing frameworks on WIKIWHY and e-CARE datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing open-source models often yield only marginal overall improvements, possibly due to an overemphasis on mathematical reasoning at the expense of broader capabilities. |
| Approach: | They evaluate 12 multimodal tasks using 14 non-reasoning models and 8 reasoning models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is effective in multimodal reasoning tasks, the authors show . they show that it lacks the ability to maintain deep visual introspection throughout the reasoning process. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for difficulty estimation rely on repeated response sampling, auxiliary models, or fine-tuning the target model itself. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that leverages only the hidden representations produced by large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines in difficulty estimation on textual and multimodal tasks and improves adaptive reasoning strategies with fewer generated tokens. |
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing methods focus on single editing, failing to meet the requirements for lifelong editing. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach that selects editing layer based on the pattern matching degree of editing knowledge across different layers in language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on GPT2-XL and GPT-J in lifelong editing compared to state-of-the-art methods . |
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge conflicts in RALMs can ensnare them in a tug-of-war between knowledge and evidence, limiting their practical applicability. |
| Approach: | They propose a method called Conflict-Disentangle Contrastive Decoding (CD2) to better calibrate the model’s confidence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can resolve knowledge conflicts in large language models with the help of conflict-disentangle contrast decoding (CD2) . |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on identifying event factuality at sentence level, which leads to conflicts between different mentions of the same event. |
| Approach: | They propose a document-level event factuality identification model that uses local uncertainty and global structure to model event factuality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing models on two widely used datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge-enhanced methods are limited to knowledge-intensive tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge-enhanced text representation toolkit for natural language understanding . it combines knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge injection and knowledge application . |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit supports knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge injection, and knowledge application. |
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| Challenge: | Existing research focuses on single-agent attacks and shared memory attacks, but real-world scenarios often involve independent memory. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale, multi-agent, multitopology attack evaluation framework that exploits the memory of an agent to make it more vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the troublemaker makes chaos in Honest Town task with 23.51%, 18.95%, and 52.93% improvements in line, star topologies, and 100-agent settings. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to expand internal memory boundaries of language models by providing external context can often conflict, leading to knowledge conflicts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that prunes conflicting attention heads without updating model parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can flexibly control eight LMs to use internal memory or external context without updating model parameters. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on event ontologies focus on entity-based OA, and neglect event-based one . however, independent development of event ontoologies often results in heterogeneous representations that raise the need for establishing alignments between semantically related events. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-view event ontology alignment method that utilizes description information and neighbor information to obtain richer representations of the event ontoologies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing entity-based methods and can serve as a strong baseline for future research. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models exhibit high-level commonsense reasoning abilities, especially with enhancement methods like Chain-of-Thought (CoT). |
| Approach: | They propose a chain-of-thought-like method to elicit models' potential abilities to generate rationales and answers that are based on attribution tracing and causal tracers to probe the internal working mechanism of the LLM. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method eliminates Toxic CoT problems and improves the model’s overall commonsense reasoning performance by 5.5%. |
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| Challenge: | Existing RAG paradigms often overlook the cognitive step of applying knowledge, leaving a gap between retrieved facts and task-specific reasoning. |
| Approach: | They introduce a module extension that integrates application-aware reasoning into the RAG pipeline. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that RAG+ outperforms standard RAG variants and achieves gains of 3–5% in complex scenarios. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods of event causality detection use hand-labeled training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for event causality detection that augments training data via distant supervision. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on two benchmark datasets . it outperformed previous methods by a large margin assisted with automatically labeled training data. |
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| Challenge: | citation generation and retrieval-augmented generation are still lacking in large language models due to hallucinations. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented citation generation task that requires models to generate citations considering both external and internal knowledge while providing trustworthy references. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better performance across scenarios compared to baselines . retrieval quality, question types, and model knowledge influence trustworthiness . |
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive capabilities in comprehending human language and vast parametric knowledge obtained from large corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level benchmark for free text model editing to bridge the gap . they categorize probe queries into three levels of generalization . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the generalization performance of large langugae models. |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to matching use Large Language Models as feature extractors, underutilizing their full modeling capabilities. |
| Approach: | They propose a matching paradigm that integrates two-tower, single-towing, and generative tasks within a unified LLM framework via attention-mask partitioning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves superior performance and strong practical value in an industrial search engine. |
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| Challenge: | Existing document-level relation extraction methods are sparse in relational entity pairs and the representation of entity pairs is insufficient. |
| Approach: | They propose a Pair-Aware and Entity-Enhanced(PAEE) model to solve two challenges . they propose predicting potential relational entity pairs and assembling directional entity pairs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can obtain state-of-the-art performance on four benchmark datasets . it can predict potential relational entity pairs and assemble directional entity pairs . |
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| Challenge: | Existing commonsense knowledge graphs are limited to English, hindering research in non-English languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese CKG generated from multilingual PLMs that is translated into Chinese . they propose 'generate-by-category' strategy to reduce invalid generation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed CKG has high quality and diversity, surpassing the direct translation version of similar English CKGs. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for ICD coding ignore Code Hierarchy and Code Co-occurrence . cost of manual coding estimated to be $25 billion per year in the US . |
| Approach: | They propose a hyperbolic representation method to leverage the code hierarchy and a graph convolutional network to utilize the code co-occurrence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two widely used datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have limitations in grounding ideas and mitigating confirmation bias during refinement. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates a Motivational Knowledge Graph with a Q-Driven Socratic Ideator to enhance LLM ideation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enhances LLM ideation by integrating a Motivational Knowledge Graph with a Q-Driven Socratic Ideator. |
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| Challenge: | Recent latent reasoning methods suffer from a bandwidth bottleneck . explicit textual rationales suffer from premature semantic collapse . |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm that reformulates visual deduction via Dynamic Windowed Alignment Learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art performance among latent reasoning methods surpassing the strong baseline Monet by 5.03% on average. |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to ACE event detection treat multiple events in one sentence as independent ones and recognize them separately. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical and bias tagging network framework to detect multiple events in one sentence collectively and a gated multi-level attention mechanism to automatically extract and fuse the sentence-level and document-level information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on a 2005 ACE dataset. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to label training datasets using distant supervision are expensive and cannot cover all walks of life. |
| Approach: | They propose a federated denoising framework to suppress label noise in federation . they propose to use a multiple instance learning based denoisation method to select reliable sentences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can select reliable sentences via cross-platform collaboration. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models generate hallucinated text when confronted with false premise questions . authors propose a method to mitigate false premises hallucinosity . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to constrain false premise attention heads during the model inference process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance by constraining false premise attention heads . it yields a notable increase of nearly 20% of model performance . |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for temporal event ordering and event infilling ignore the global semantics of events, and the model adopts a word-level objective to model events in texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a temporal event ordering and event infilling task using a model that uses maximum likelihood estimation to model events in texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on all evaluation datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit poor performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, such as commonsense reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to elicit, filter and integrate knowledge in large language models (LINKED) they propose 'reward model' to filter out noisy knowledge and 'take marginal consistent reasoning module' |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms SOTA baselines on two commonsense reasoning tasks. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract events from documents are limited due to the high cost of labeling . Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of a document-level Chinese financial event extraction system. |
| Approach: | They propose a document-level Chinese financial event extraction framework which detects event mentions and extracts events from financial news. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system detects event mentions and extracts events from financial news . it can generate large scale labeled data and extract events from entire document . |
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| Challenge: | Despite the promising performance of Large Vision Language Models, they sometimes generate incorrect outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-modal reward model that aligns LVLMs with human preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves excellent results on the latest multi-modal reward model benchmark and shows competitive performance on text-only reward model. |
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| Challenge: | Various types of LLMs have recently been rapidly developing, such as Llama2 and ChatGLM2 . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that comprehensively evaluates LLMs across 7 ability dimensions covering 51 tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks are comprehensive and systematic, with a high level of accuracy and authority. |
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are coarse, single-dimensional metrics and do not explicitly assess fine-grained legal reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a Practical Law Benchmark to evaluate large language models in real-world legal practice scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on 850 questions and 13 scenarios with expert-designed evaluation rubrics. |
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for enabling Large Language Models to generate citations are lacking . however, they can still produce hallucinated responses that are non-factual or irrelevant to the input. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source and modular framework for enabling LLMs to generate citations in Question-Answering tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is extensible and paired with a visual interface, Citefix, facilitating case study and modification of existing citation generation methods. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to predict event sequences are complex and ignore the knowledge of external events. |
| Approach: | They propose a statistical induction problem to generate a sequence of events by exploring the similarity between the given goal and known sequences of events. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on an event sequence prediction task. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for retrieval augmentation work with chunked contexts, which leads to poor quality of semantic representation and incomplete retrieval of useful information. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for retrieval augmentation of long-context language modeling using landmark embedding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing retrieval methods with a notable advantage. |
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| Challenge: | evaluating the knowledge of large language models (LLMs) is crucial, and rapid advancement in large language modeling has heightened the importance of model evaluations. |
| Approach: | They propose a fairer benchmark for evaluating multiple knowledge types of LLMs by focusing on commonsense knowledge, world knowledge, and language knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates 14 current mainstream LLMs and provides a detailed discussion and analysis of their results. |
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| Challenge: | Using a large-scale dataset, we explore Chinese named entity recognition (NER) with both textual and acoustic contents. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese multimodal named entity recognition dataset . their corpus contains 42,987 annotated sentences and 71 hours of speech data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model yields state-of-the-art (SoTA) results on Chinese multimodal named entity recognition (NER) based on 42,987 annotated sentences and 71 hours of speech data. |
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| Challenge: | Event extraction (EE) is a crucial information extraction task that aims to extract event information in texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a new learning paradigm for event extraction by explicitly casting it as a machine reading comprehension problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the data-scarce scenario, achieving 49.8% in F1 for event argument extraction with only 1% data, compared with 2.2% of the previous method. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event causality identification (ECI) rely on annotated training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to augment training data for event causality identification by iteratively generating new examples and classifying event causalities in a dual learning framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on EventStoryLine and Causal-TimeBank. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to generating hallucinated content and often encompass factually inaccurate information. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages knowledge graphs to address the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) they identify and decompose required knowledge triples that are not present in the KG, enriching them and aligning updates with real-world demands. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces hallucinations and increases factual accuracy in QA scenarios while retaining the same quality of knowledge. |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for event extraction focus on sentence-level event extraction, but they lack a broader view of the document context. |
| Approach: | They build graphs with candidate event filler extractions enriched by sentential embeddings as nodes and use graph attention networks to identify event regions in a document and aggregate event information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs well on two languages and shows that it is faster than previous methods. |
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that large language models may possess preliminary planning capabilities. |
| Approach: | They examine the look-ahead planning mechanism in large language models from the perspectives of information flow and internal representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can decode the decision from the output of MHSA in the middle layers at the last token. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event reason extraction are far from resolving this problem. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to extract causal explanations from document-level texts . they use a dataset FinReason for evaluation to provide Reasons annotation for financial events . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task performs better than existing methods on a dataset of 8,794 documents, 12,861 financial events and 11,006 reason spans. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods of automatic coding prediction have been successful, but the interpretability of predicted codes is a challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose an online system that can predict ICD codes for Chinese clinical notes by using a Dilated Convolutional Attention network with N-gram Matching mechanism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is able to provide supporting information in clinical decision making. |
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| Challenge: | Existing models for named entity recognition (NER) lack word boundaries information, which is a major barrier to developing a high performance named entity system. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese named entity recognition system with word boundaries information . they use word-level representations and character-level models to integrate lexical knowledge into Chinese NER . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art model and achieves a speed of up to 15 times faster than the SOTA model. |
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results in complex reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a multi-turn reasoning evaluation framework to cover multi-turn interactions with the environments of large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework covers diverse reasoning capabilities, fine-grained difficulty granularity, and necessitates multi-turn interactions with the environments. |
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| Challenge: | Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting demonstrates varying performance under different reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to recall extra information from the question to enhance CoT generation and evaluate CoTs based on their information gain. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves both the faithfulness and effectiveness of CoT and evaluates it based on their information gain. |
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| Challenge: | Rapid adoption of LLMs has overshadowed the potential advantages of traditional BERT-like models in text classification. |
| Approach: | They compare BERT-like models fine-tuning, LLM internal state utilization, and LLM zero-shot inference across six datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms LLMs on six challenging datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Document-level event extraction (DEE) is indispensable when events are described throughout a document. |
| Approach: | They propose a document-level event extraction model that can extract structured events from a text in parallel. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on a document-level event extraction task. |
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| Challenge: | Large vision–language models suffer from object-existence hallucinations when multi-step deliberation decouples from visual evidence. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that allocates visual computation by uncertainty . they propose highlighting retains global context, while selective zoom-in performs local verification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the complexity of multimodal reasoning by minimizing the operator trade-off. |
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| Challenge: | Concept sememe tree is a hierarchical structure that represents lexical meaning by combining sememes and their relationships. |
| Approach: | They introduce a Neighbor Semantic Structure (NSS) and a Chain-of-Thought prompting method to evaluate the effectiveness of various Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating concept sememe trees. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method guides LLMs through an analysis of a term’s intrinsic core concepts, essential attributes, and semantic relationships, enabling the generation of concept sememe trees. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on sentence-level ECI with high-resource languages, leaving document-level DECI with low-resourced languages under-explored. |
| Approach: | They propose a Heterogeneous Graph Interaction Model with Multi-granularity Contrastive Transfer Learning for zero-shot cross-lingual ECI. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art model on monolingual and multilingual scenarios by 9.4% and 8.2% of average F1 score. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on event schema induction have been hindered by errors and data quality issues. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge-enriched discrete diffusion model that distills event scenario knowledge from LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves outstanding performance across evaluation metrics. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying causal relations of events are limited . Existing approaches cannot handle well the problem, especially in the condition of lacking training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a Latent Structure Induction Network to integrate external structural knowledge into a causality reasoning task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on two widely used datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for ICD coding ignore the long-tail of code frequency or noisy clinical notes. |
| Approach: | They propose to use an interactive shared representation network to model code co-occurrences while focusing on the clinical note's noteworthy part and extract valuable information through a self-distillation learning mechanism to solve the long-tail problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model reduces the long-tail of code frequency and noise in clinical notes and extracts valuable information through a self-distillation learning mechanism. |
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| Challenge: | Existing retrieval augmented language models often overlook effective alignment with human preferences. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate RMs in retrieval augmented language models . they incorporate 18 RAG subsets, six retrievers, and 24 RALMs to increase diversity . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark combines 18 RAG subsets, six retrievers, and 24 RALMs to increase diversity of data sources. |
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| Challenge: | Existing timeline summarizations lack flexibility to meet diverse granularity needs . a fine-grained timeline showing the technical details is preferred for news topics . |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm to construct adaptive timelines based on user instructions or requirements. |
| Outcome: | The proposed timelines are informative and granularly consistent, but they struggle to generate consistent timelines. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have great potential to facilitate explainable diagnosis, but their effectiveness is often constrained by insufficient diagnostic expertise. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified LLM-based framework for faithful and explainable diagnosis that builds a high-quality diagnostic knowledge base through a record-driven explanation learning paradigm. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines on the DiReCT and JAMA benchmarks and improves the explanation completeness metric from 64.5% to 76.9% over the best existing methods. |
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| Challenge: | Multimodal web agents are cost-efficient and privacy-preserving, but suffer from weak planning and limited cross-website generalization. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which autonomously explores environments to discover experiences and utilizes hindsight experience to synthesize strictly aligned, high-level training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms Qwen2.5-VL-32B model on real-world benchmarks and demonstrates that mastering low-level atomic skills does not guarantee high-level planning competence. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to learn from limited examples are insufficient for many-shot text classification tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to introduce external knowledge into few-shot learning to imitate human knowledge by creating a parameter generator network that generates different metrics for different tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the SoTA few-shot text classification models. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for conversational retrieval only fine-tune on limited supervised data, making it difficult for the retriever to fully grasp the entire conversation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to instruct unsupervised conversational dense retrieval with large language models (LLMs) they use supervised data to discover the user's query intent from the conversation context . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can bring significant improvements across various ad-hoc retrievers, surpassing the current state-of-the-art method. |
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| Challenge: | Continual learning and zero-shot learning approaches have not been adopted to scale to novel-emerging types. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to recognize entities in novel types by their textual names or descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on three challenging OVNER benchmarks by 9.7%, 9.5%, and 1.8% F1-score of novel types. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are believed to store extensive factual knowledge, yet the mechanisms of knowledge storage in LLMs remain largely unexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose that some multi-layer perceptron neurons can store "knowledge". |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can store "knowledge" in multi-layer perceptron neurons, but not redundancy. |
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing algorithms are prone to generating original knowledge . despite the fact that many models achieve near-perfect performance, superficial editing remains a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose to use "**superficial editing**" to describe the phenomenon . they investigate the internal mechanisms of the attention module and their corresponding left singular vectors . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can modify specific knowledge in a pretrained large language model while ensuring that unrelated knowledge remains unaffected. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to infer missing types for knowledge graphs only leverage one-hop neighbor information of the central entity, ignoring multi-hop neighbors that can provide valuable clues for inference. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to infer missing types for knowledge graph entities by using neighbor information and co-occurrence relations between types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on two widely used datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event causality identification (ECI) rely on labeled data, but the scale of annotated datasets is limited. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-supervised framework to learn context-specific causal patterns from external causal statements and adopt a contrastive transfer strategy to incorporate the learned context- specific causal patterns into the target ECI model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms existing methods on EventSto-ryLine and Causal-TimeBank (+2.0 and +3.4 points on F1 value respectively). |
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in deep learning have significantly impacted the legal domain. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework for judicial decision-making that simulates the court trial process . they propose 420 Chinese judgment documents to support their framework and build a large-scale legal knowledge base . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in various aspects, especially in generating legal articles. |
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing methods for MLLMs lack multi-granularity knowledge . existing knowledge editing approaches lack multimodality knowledge and generalize to multimodal data. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal knowledge editing method which integrates key knowledge layers within MLLMs and collaboratively edits them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves visual generality performance on knowledge data of different granularities. |
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| Challenge: | Temporal knowledge graph forecasting (TKGF) uses long-window strengthscores and short-windowed novelty scores to predict missing entities in future queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-freeprompting framework that uses two perspectives of history to predict missing entities in future queries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art baselineAnRe framework in ICEWS14, ICEW05-15, and GDELT. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on syntactic knowledge and world knowledge, but conceptual structure is not well-understood. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for coNceptual structure induction based on FrameNet . they use prompts to induce conceptual structure of Framenet with LLMs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is able to induce conceptual structure of FrameNet with LLMs. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for named entity recognition (NER) do not exploit word boundary information from CWS or cannot filter the specific information of CWS. |
| Approach: | They propose to exploit task-shared boundary information to make full use of Chinese NER task and Chinese word segmentation (CWS) . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on two widely used datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event detection (ED) rely on high-performance machine translation systems or manually aligned documents to achieve a decent performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses context-dependent translation to construct a lexical mapping between different languages and a shared syntactic order event detector for multilingual co-training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs cross-lingual transfer and tackles the extremely annotation-poor scenario. |
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| Challenge: | Personalized tool utilization is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with user preference in interaction scenarios with various tools. |
| Approach: | They propose a key-point-based LLM evaluation method that mitigates biases by manually annotating key points for each test case and providing them to LLM as the reference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method mitigates biases in the LLM-as-a-judge system by manually annotating key points for each test case and providing them to LLM as the reference. |
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| Challenge: | Recent work shows large language models can generate useful rationales for commonsense question answering (CQA) however, the cost of deployment and further tuning is relatively expensive for the large models. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages both knowledge graphs and large language models to synthesize rationale-augmented CQA data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate useful rationales on unseen CQA benchmarks. |