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Qinggang Zhang

16 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

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

From Retrieval to Translation: Translating Query into Graph-level Clues for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ICML 2026poster

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently been enhanced with tree or graph structures to match user intent for precise passage retrieval, which facilitates large language models (LLMs) in effectively mitigating hallucinations by leveraging external knowledge. However, we identify that existi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

LLM Collaborative Filtering: User-Item Graph as New Language

AAAI 2026technical

In collaborative filtering, learning effective embeddings for users and items from interaction data remains a central challenge. While recent efforts leverage large language models (LLMs) to enhance collaborative filtering, two critical limitations persist: (1) Efficiency: LLM-based inference is sig

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora

ICLR 2026poster

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to mitigate hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging external knowledge. While effective for simple queries, traditional RAG systems struggle with large-scale, unstructured corpora where information is fragmented. Recent advance…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Temporal Graph Thumbnail: Robust Representation Learning with Global Evolutionary Skeleton

ICLR 2026poster

Temporal graphs are commonly employed as conceptual models for capturing time-evolving interactions in real-world systems. Representation learning on such non-Euclidean data typically depends on aggregating information from neighbors, and the presence of temporal dynamics further complicates this pr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Graph retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge. It leverages graphs to model the hierarchical structure between specific concepts, enabling more coherent and effective knowledge retrieval for accur…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

You Don’t Need Pre-Built Graphs for RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Adaptive Reasoning Structures

AAAI 2026technical

Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucination, generating factually incorrect statements when handling questions beyond their knowledge and perception. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) addresses this by retrieving query-relevant contexts from knowledge bases to support LLM reasoni

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
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

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval systems have demonstrated significant potential in handling knowledge-intensive tasks. However, these models often struggle with unfaithfulness issues, generating outputs that either ignore the retrieved context or inconsistently blend it with th…

2025

NeuSymEA: Neuro-symbolic Entity Alignment via Variational Inference

NeurIPS 2025poster

Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. Existing methods can be categorized into symbolic and neural models. Symbolic models, while precise, struggle with substructure heterogeneity and sparsity, whereas neural models, although effective…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Structure-Guided Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Generation

ICML 2025poster

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in bridging the gap between natural language queries and database management systems, enabling users to interact with databases without the background of SQL. However, LLMs often struggle to fully exploit and comprehend the user…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Cost-efficient Knowledge-based Question Answering with Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Knowledge-based question answering (KBQA) is widely used in many scenarios that necessitate domain knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) bring opportunities to KBQA, while their costs are significantly higher and absence of domain-specific knowledge during pre-training. We are motivated to combine…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Entity Alignment with Noisy Annotations from Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. While existing methods heavily rely on human-generated labels, it is prohibitively expensive to incorporate cross-domain experts for annotation in real-world scenarios. The advent of Large Language…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2024

KnowGPT: Knowledge Graph based Prompting for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in many real-world applications. Nonetheless, LLMs are often criticized for their tendency to produce hallucinations, wherein the models fabricate incorrect statements on tasks beyond their knowledge and perception. To alleviate…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

Knowledge-to-SQL: Enhancing SQL Generation with Data Expert LLM

ACL 2024findings

Generating accurate SQL queries for user questions (text-to-SQL) has been a long-standing challenge since it requires a deep understanding of both the user’s question and the corresponding database schema in order to retrieve the desired content accurately. Existing methods rely on the comprehensive…

2024

Modality-Aware Integration with Large Language Models for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

ACL 2024long

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KVQA) has been extensively studied to answer visual questions with external knowledge, e.g., knowledge graphs (KGs). While several attempts have been proposed to leverage large language models (LLMs) as an implicit knowledge source, it remains challenging s…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar