Papers by Yuxiang Cai

8 papers
GEMS: Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction via Multi-perspective Prompts and Ontology Steering (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for event argument extraction rely on a single prompt . existing methods ignore complex structural and dynamic interdependencies between event arguments .
Approach: They propose a multi-prompt learning framework that generates event arguments via multi-perspective prompts and ontology steering.
Outcome: The proposed framework captures interrelationships between arguments and ontology steering . it uses multiple unfilled prompts for each sentence to generate event arguments .
LSDC: An Efficient and Effective Large-Scale Data Compression Method for Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are expanding in scale and size, increasing computational costs . large-scale data compression techniques can reduce the size of training datasets while maintaining data integrity.
Approach: They propose a large-scale data compression method to reduce the size of training data . they use a bifurcated quantization strategy to maximize the diversity of samples .
Outcome: The proposed method significantly reduces the size of training data while maximizing the submodular gain.
DeepResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world Environments (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) with web search capabilities show significant potential for deep research.
Approach: They introduce a framework for end-to-end training of LLM-based deep research agents . they implement a specialized multi-agent architecture where browsing agents extract relevant information from various webpage structures.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on open-domain research tasks by 28.9 points over prompt engineering and 7.2 points over RAG-based RL agents.
Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) are dynamic structures representing entities and their evolving relationships through time.
Approach: They propose a non-parametric model that encodes subject-centric histories into sequential embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed model encodes subject-centric histories of entities, relations and temporal intervals into sequential embeddings.
DiFiNet: Boundary-Aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to Named Entity Recognition focus on identifying non-nested entities, but there is no explicit guidance for boundary detection.
Approach: They propose a Boundary-aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for nested NER that leverages a biaffine attention mechanism to generate a span representation matrix.
Outcome: Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the proposed model yields a new state-of-the-art performance.
Predicting the Unpredictable: Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs via Diffusion Process (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning capture indeterminacy in future events, but they are limited in capturing it.
Approach: They propose a Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning process that denoises historical events and introduces Gaussian noise to corrupt target facts.
Outcome: Empirical results show that DiffuTKG outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four real-world datasets.
Synergetic Interaction Network with Cross-task Attention for Joint Relational Triple Extraction (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to joint entity-relation extraction are limited in their ability to capture the interdependence between the two sub-tasks.
Approach: They propose a synergistic approach to capture interdependence between named entity recognition and relation extraction sub-tasks in a Synergetic Interaction Network.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves significantly better performance on three benchmark datasets.
TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints.
Approach: They propose a framework that uses tiny language models to evaluate instruction following . they propose to use a set of specialized tiny language model to provide rewards for soft constraints.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baseline models by 12% and speeds up training time by 3.

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