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Chang Yang

11 accepted papers

2026

Augmenting Intra-Modal Understanding in MLLMs for Robust Multimodal Keyphrase Generation

AAAI 2026technical

Multimodal keyphrase generation (MKP) aims to extract a concise set of keyphrases that capture the essential meaning of paired image–text inputs, enabling structured understanding, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data across the web and social platforms. Success in this task demands effectivel

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2025

Consistency Rating of Semantic Transparency: an Evaluation Method for Metaphor Competence in Idiom Understanding Tasks

COLING 2025main

Idioms condense complex semantics into fixed phrases, and their meaning is often not directly connected to the literal meaning of their constituent words, making idiom comprehension a test of metaphor competence. Metaphor, as a cognitive process in human beings, has not yet found an effective evalua…

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2025

Each graph is a new language: Graph Learning with LLMs

ACL 2025finding

Natural language has been extensively used for modeling text-attributed graphs with LLMs. Natural language is used to describe the graph for LLMs to understand or serve as component of the graph, e.g., textual attributes for embedding generation. However, natural language is inherently redundant and…

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2025

Efficient Integration of External Knowledge to LLM-based World Models via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Reinforcement Learning

EMNLP 2025

World models achieve remarkable success in predicting future states and planning in complex environments and Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as promising foundation to build general world models. However, their performances are usually constrained by the limited external knowledge to specific env

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2024

Configurable Mirror Descent: Towards a Unification of Decision Making

ICML 2024poster

Decision-making problems, categorized as single-agent, e.g., Atari, cooperative multi-agent, e.g., Hanabi, competitive multi-agent, e.g., Hold'em poker, and mixed cooperative and competitive, e.g., football, are ubiquitous in the real world. Although various methods have been proposed to address the…

2024

Deciphering Rumors: A Multi-Task Learning Approach with Intent-aware Hierarchical Contrastive Learning

EMNLP 2024main

Social networks are rife with noise and misleading information, presenting multifaceted challenges for rumor detection. In this paper, from the perspective of human cognitive subjectivity, we introduce the mining of individual latent intentions and propose a novel multi-task learning framework, the…

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2024

Quantum Topic Model: Topic Modeling Using Variational Quantum Circuits

ICASSP 2024accepted

Quantum machine learning aims to leverage quantum computing to enhance the computing capabilities and storage efficiency of classical machine learning. Among them, quantum generative models, as a type of unsupervised machine learning, have been proven to learn distributions that are outside of class…

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2024

Reinforcement Nash Equilibrium Solver

IJCAI 2024poster

Nash Equilibrium (NE) is the canonical solution concept of game theory, which provides an elegant tool to understand the rationalities. Though mixed strategy NE exists in any game with finite players and actions, computing NE in two- or multi-player general-sum games is PPAD-Complete. Various altern…

2024

Self-adaptive PSRO: Towards an Automatic Population-based Game Solver

IJCAI 2024poster

Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) as a general algorithmic framework has achieved state-of-the-art performance in learning equilibrium policies of two-player zero-sum games. However, the hand-crafted hyperparameter value selection in most of the existing works requires extensive domain knowledge,…

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2023

Rumor Detection on Social Media with Crowd Intelligence and ChatGPT-Assisted Networks

EMNLP 2023long main

In the era of widespread dissemination through social media, the task of rumor detection plays a pivotal role in establishing a trustworthy and reliable information environment. Nonetheless, existing research on rumor detection confronts several challenges: the limited expressive power of text encod…

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