Papers by Zihe Liu
EVA: Evolving Semantic Adversaries for Red-Teaming GUI Agents Against Environmental Injection Attacks (2026.findings-acl)
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Yijie Lu, Manman Zhao, Tianjie Ju, Zihe Yan, Xinbei Ma, Yuan Guo, Daizong Ding, Gongshen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for red-teaming face a trade-off between requiring target-specific knowledge and incurring prohibitive computational costs. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that evolves payloads exclusively on the semantic dimension via a discovery-deployment pipeline. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that EVA outperforms baselines in terms of attack success rate while evolving benign seeds into successful attacks within 1.18 to 1.71 iterations. |
Differentiated Vision: Unveiling Entity-Specific Visual Modality Requirements for Multimodal Knowledge Graph (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract features from images of entities overlook varying relevance of visual information across entities. |
| Approach: | a new model integrates structural and multimodal information of entities into a multimodal knowledge graph . a model evaluates the necessity of visual modality for each entity based on its attributes . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on existing methods by adjusting visual data to different entity types. |
Multi-Stage LLM Fine-Tuning with a Continual Learning Setting (2025.findings-naacl)
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Changhao Guan, Chao Huang, Hongliang Li, You Li, Ning Cheng, Zihe Liu, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu, Jian Liu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in knowledge-intensive applications, but they may face a multi-stage continuous learning scenario. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-stage continuous learning paradigm that includes a preference-based learning bias to identify potential knowledge conflicts and a self-distillation-based data augmentation strategy to expand and enrich the training corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed learning paradigm achieves a significant improvement in accuracy after 7 stages of fine-tuning compared to previous methods while preserving general knowledge. |
Towards Multi-Relational Multi-Hop Reasoning over Dense Temporal Knowledge Graphs (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Temporal knowledge graph reasoning is a crucial task for answering time-dependent questions within a knowledge graph (KG). |
| Approach: | They propose a temporal KG reasoning benchmark with over 200k entities and 960k questions that facilitate complex, multi-relational and multi-hop reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is able to conduct pattern-aware and time-sensitive reasoning across temporal KGs and is scalable to a wide range of data conditions. |
Enhancing Open-Domain Task-Solving Capability of LLMs via Autonomous Tool Integration from GitHub (2025.acl-long)
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Bohan Lyu, Xin Cong, Heyang Yu, Pan Yang, Cheng Qian, Zihe Wang, Yujia Qin, Yining Ye, Yaxi Lu, Chen Qian, Zhong Zhang, Yukun Yan, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Existing approaches lack flexibility to address diverse and ever-evolving user queries in open domains. |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate LLMs on open-domain knowledge that requires tools to solve diverse and ever-evolving user queries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms baselines in the open domain task-solving benchmark. |