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Lei Liang

25 accepted papers

2026

CoT-Evo: Evolutionary Distillation of Chain-of-Thought for Scientific Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

While chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation from advanced large language models (LLMs) has proven effective in general reasoning tasks, it struggles in scientific domains where even advanced models often produce incorrect or superficial reasoning due to high complexity and specialized knowledge requir…

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2026

Self-Correction Distillation for Structured Data Question Answering

AAAI 2026technical

Structured data question answering (QA), including table QA, Knowledge Graph (KG) QA, and temporal KG QA, is a pivotal research area. Advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in unified structural QA frameworks like TrustUQA. However, these frameworks face

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2026

Thinker: Training LLMs in Hierarchical Thinking for Deep Search via Multi-Turn Interaction

AAAI 2026technical

Efficient retrieval of external knowledge bases and web pages is crucial for enhancing the reasoning abilities of LLMs. Previous works on training LLMs to leverage external retrievers for solving complex problems have predominantly employed end-to-end reinforcement learning. However, these approache

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2026

UniHR: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Unified Knowledge Graph Link Prediction

AAAI 2026technical

Real-world knowledge graphs (KGs) contain not only standard triple-based facts, but also more complex, heterogeneous types of facts, such as hyper-relational facts with auxiliary key-value pairs, temporal facts with additional timestamps, and nested facts that imply relationships between facts. Thes

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2025

EventRAG: Enhancing LLM Generation with Event Knowledge Graphs

ACL 2025long

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems often struggle with narrative-rich documents and event-centric reasoning, particularly when synthesizing information across multiple sources. We present EventRAG, a novel framework that enhances text generation through structured event representations. We…

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2025

Have We Designed Generalizable Structural Knowledge Promptings? Systematic Evaluation and Rethinking

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in text generation within current NLP research. However, the lack of factual accuracy is still a dark cloud hanging over the LLM skyscraper. Structural knowledge prompting (SKP) is a prominent paradigm to integrate external knowl…

2025

HiMoLE: Towards OOD-Robust LoRA via Hierarchical Mixture of Experts

NeurIPS 2025poster

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, have enabled the efficient adaptation of large language models (LLMs) by updating only a small subset of parameters. However, their robustness under out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions remains insufficiently studied. In this paper, we id…

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2025

Improving Natural Language Understanding for LLMs via Large-Scale Instruction Synthesis

AAAI 2025technical

High-quality, large-scale instructions are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs), however, there is a severe shortage of instruction in the field of natural language understanding (NLU). Previous works on constructing NLU instructions mainly focus on information extraction (IE), neglect…

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2025

KnowAgent: Knowledge-Augmented Planning for LLM-Based Agents

NAACL 2025findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet they fall short when tackling more sophisticated challenges, especially when interacting with environments through generating executable actions. This inadequacy primarily stems from the lack of built-in a…

2025

Logic-Thinker: Teaching Large Language Models to Think more Logically.

EMNLP 2025

Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated the ability to generate long chains of thought (LongCoT) before arriving at a final conclusion. Despite remarkable breakthroughs in complex reasoning capabilities, LongCoT still faces challenges such as redundancy and logical incoherence. To add

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2025

RTQA : Recursive Thinking for Complex Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Current temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) methods primarily focus on implicit temporal constraints, lacking the capability to handle more complex temporal queries, and struggle with limited reasoning abilities and error propagation in decomposition frameworks. We propose RTQA, a no

2025

RiOT: Efficient Prompt Refinement with Residual Optimization Tree

ACL 2025long

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have highlighted their potential across a variety of tasks, but their performance still heavily relies on the design of effective prompts. Existing methods for automatic prompt optimization face two challenges: lack of diversity, limiting the explo…

2025

SKA-Bench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Structured Knowledge Understanding of LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Although large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in understanding Structured Knowledge (SK) like KG and Table, existing evaluations for SK understanding are non-rigorous (i.e., lacking evaluations of specific capabilities) and focus on a single type of SK. Therefore, we aim to pr

2025

SkySense V2: A Unified Foundation Model for Multi-modal Remote Sensing

ICCV 2025poster

The multi-modal remote sensing foundation model (MM-RSFM) has significantly advanced various Earth observation tasks, such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and natural disaster management. However, most existing approaches generally require the training of separate backbone networks for…

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2025

TrustUQA: A Trustful Framework for Unified Structured Data Question Answering

AAAI 2025technical

Natural language question answering (QA) over structured data sources such as tables and knowledge graphs have been widely investigated, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years. The main solutions include question to formal query parsing and retrieval-based answer generation. Ho…

2025

When Large Vision-Language Model Meets Large Remote Sensing Imagery: Coarse-to-Fine Text-Guided Token Pruning

ICCV 2025poster

Efficient vision-language understanding of large Remote Sensing Images (RSIs) is meaningful but challenging. Current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically employ limited pre-defined grids to process images, leading to information loss when handling gigapixel RSIs. Conversely, using unlimite…

2024

Context-Aware Transformer for Single Image Rain Streaks Removal

ICASSP 2024accepted

Deep learning based image deraining has been widely researched. However, rain streaks are hard to differentiate with similar textures of background without context knowledge. In this paper, a novel Context-Aware Transformer (CAT) is proposed for single image deraining where both local and global con…

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2024

Editing Conceptual Knowledge for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Recently, there has been a growing interest in knowledge editing for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current approaches and evaluations merely explore the instance-level editing, while whether LLMs possess the capability to modify concepts remains unclear. This paper pioneers the investigation of edit…

2024

IEPile: Unearthing Large Scale Schema-Conditioned Information Extraction Corpus

ACL 2024short

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable potential across various domains; however, they exhibit a significant performance gap in Information Extraction (IE). Note that high-quality instruction data is the vital key for enhancing the specific capabilities of LLMs, while current IE dataset…

2024

OneGen: Efficient One-Pass Unified Generation and Retrieval for LLMs

EMNLP 2024finding

Despite the recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), which have significantly enhanced the generative capabilities for various NLP tasks, LLMs still face limitations in directly handling retrieval tasks. However, many practical applications demand the seamless integration of both retriev…

2024

Prompt-fused Framework for Inductive Logical Query Answering

COLING 2024main

Answering logical queries on knowledge graphs (KG) poses a significant challenge for machine reasoning. The primary obstacle in this task stems from the inherent incompleteness of KGs. Existing research has predominantly focused on addressing the issue of missing edges in KGs, thereby neglecting ano…

2024

Rethinking Memory and Communication Costs for Efficient Data Parallel Training of Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recently, various strategies for distributed training of large language models (LLMs) have been proposed. By categorizing them into basic strategies and composite strategies, we have discovered that existing basic strategies provide limited options in specific scenarios, leaving considerable room fo…

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2024

Unified Hallucination Detection for Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Despite significant strides in multimodal tasks, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are plagued by the critical issue of hallucination. The reliable detection of such hallucinations in MLLMs has, therefore, become a vital aspect of model evaluation and the safeguarding of practical application…

2024

Unleashing the Power of Imbalanced Modality Information for Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion

COLING 2024main

Multi-modal knowledge graph completion (MMKGC) aims to predict the missing triples in the multi-modal knowledge graphs by incorporating structural, visual, and textual information of entities into the discriminant models. The information from different modalities will work together to measure the tr…