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Taolin Zhang

26 accepted papers

2026

SparseEval: Efficient Evaluation of Large Language Models by Sparse Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale up, their performance on various downstream tasks has significantly improved. However, evaluating their capabilities has become increasingly expensive, as performing inference on a large number of benchmark samples incurs high computational costs. In…

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2025

Attribution Analysis Meets Model Editing: Advancing Knowledge Correction in Vision Language Models with VisEdit

AAAI 2025technical

Model editing aims to correct outdated or erroneous knowledge in large models without costly retraining. Recent research discovered that the mid-layer representation of the subject's final token in a prompt has a strong influence on factual predictions, and developed Large Language Model (LLM) editi…

2025

BELLE: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Multi-Hop Question Answering

ACL 2025long

Multi-hop question answering (QA) involves finding multiple relevant passages and performing step-by-step reasoning to answer complex questions. Previous works on multi-hop QA employ specific methods from different modeling perspectives based on large language models (LLMs), regardless of the questi…

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2025

Condor: Enhance LLM Alignment with Knowledge-Driven Data Synthesis and Refinement

ACL 2025long

The quality of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) data plays a critical role in enhancing the conversational capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the availability of high-quality human-annotated SFT data has become a significant bottleneck for LLMs, necessitating a greater reliance on sy…

2025

FastVAR: Linear Visual Autoregressive Modeling via Cached Token Pruning

ICCV 2025poster

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling has gained popularity for its shift towards next-scale prediction. However, existing VAR paradigms process the entire token map at each scale step, leading to the complexity and runtime scaling dramatically with image resolution. To address this challenge, we pro…

2025

Lifelong Knowledge Editing for Vision Language Models with Low-Rank Mixture-of-Experts

CVPR 2025poster

Model editing aims to correct inaccurate knowledge, update outdated information, and incorporate new data into Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for retraining. This task poses challenges in lifelong scenarios where edits must be continuously applied for real-world applications. While so…

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2025

Rethinking Verification for LLM Code Generation: From Generation to Testing

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved notable success in code‑generation benchmarks such as HumanEval and LiveCodeBench. However, a detailed examination reveals that these evaluation suites often comprise only a limited number of homogeneous test cases, resulting in subtle faults going…

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2025

UniEdit: A Unified Knowledge Editing Benchmark for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Model editing aims to efficiently revise incorrect or outdated knowledge within LLMs without incurring the high cost of full retraining and risking catastrophic forgetting. Currently, most LLM editing datasets are confined to narrow knowledge domains and cover a limited range of editing evaluation.…

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2024

BoostAdapter: Improving Vision-Language Test-Time Adaptation via Regional Bootstrapping

NeurIPS 2024poster

Adaptation of pretrained vision-language models such as CLIP to various downstream tasks have raised great interest in recent researches. Previous works have proposed a variety of test-time adaptation (TTA) methods to achieve strong generalization without any knowledge of the target domain. Howev…

2024

CIDR: A Cooperative Integrated Dynamic Refining Method for Minimal Feature Removal Problem

AAAI 2024technical

The minimal feature removal problem in the post-hoc explanation area aims to identify the minimal feature set (MFS). Prior studies using the greedy algorithm to calculate the minimal feature set lack the exploration of feature interactions under a monotonic assumption which cannot be satisfied in ge…

2024

DAFNet: Dynamic Auxiliary Fusion for Sequential Model Editing in Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Recently, while large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive results, they still suffer from hallucination, i.e., the generation of false information. Model editing is the task of fixing factual mistakes in LLMs; yet, most previous works treat it as a one-time task, paying little attent…

2024

KEHRL: Learning Knowledge-Enhanced Language Representations with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

COLING 2024main

Knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models (KEPLMs) leverage relation triples from knowledge graphs (KGs) and integrate these external data sources into language models via self-supervised learning. Previous works treat knowledge enhancement as two independent operations, i.e., knowledge injecti…

2024

Lifelong Knowledge Editing for LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Continuous Prompt Learning

EMNLP 2024main

Model editing aims to correct outdated or erroneous knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without the need for costly retraining. Lifelong model editing is the most challenging task that caters to the continuous editing requirements of LLMs. Prior works primarily focus on single or batch editing…

2024

Multimodal Label Relevance Ranking via Reinforcement Learning

ECCV 2024poster

"Conventional multi-label recognition methods often focus on label confidence, frequently overlooking the pivotal role of partial order relations consistent with human preference. To resolve these issues, we introduce a novel method for multimodal label relevance ranking, named Label Relevance Ranki…

2024

On the Role of Long-tail Knowledge in Retrieval Augmented Large Language Models

ACL 2024short

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) exhibits outstanding performance in promoting the knowledge capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with retrieved documents related to user queries. However, RAG only focuses on improving the response quality of LLMs via enhancing queries indiscriminately w…

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2024

Parameter-Efficient and Memory-Efficient Tuning for Vision Transformer: A Disentangled Approach

ECCV 2024poster

"Recent works on parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) show the potential to adapt a pre-trained Vision Transformer to downstream recognition tasks with only a few learnable parameters. However, since they usually insert new structures into the pre-trained model, entire intermediate features…

2024

ReFIR: Grounding Large Restoration Models with Retrieval Augmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from the hallucination dilemma, i.e., producing incorrect contents…

2024

TRELM: Towards Robust and Efficient Pre-training for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Models

COLING 2024main

KEPLMs are pre-trained models that utilize external knowledge to enhance language understanding. Previous language models facilitated knowledge acquisition by incorporating knowledge-related pre-training tasks learned from relation triples in knowledge graphs. However, these models do not prioritize…

2024

UniPSDA: Unsupervised Pseudo Semantic Data Augmentation for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Natural Language Understanding

COLING 2024main

Cross-lingual representation learning transfers knowledge from resource-rich data to resource-scarce ones to improve the semantic understanding abilities of different languages. However, previous works rely on shallow unsupervised data generated by token surface matching, regardless of the global co…

2024

Vision-Language Pre-training with Object Contrastive Learning for 3D Scene Understanding

AAAI 2024technical

In recent years, vision language pre-training frameworks have made significant progress in natural language processing and computer vision, achieving remarkable performance improvement on various downstream tasks. However, when extended to point cloud data, existing works mainly focus on building ta…

2023

From Complex to Simple: Unraveling the Cognitive Tree for Reasoning with Small Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

Reasoning is a distinctive human capacity, enabling us to address complex problems by breaking them down into a series of manageable cognitive steps. Yet, complex logical reasoning is still cumbersome for language models. Based on the dual process theory in cognitive science, we are the first to unr…

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2023

Learning Knowledge-Enhanced Contextual Language Representations for Domain Natural Language Understanding

EMNLP 2023long main

Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models (KEPLMs) improve the performance of various downstream NLP tasks by injecting knowledge facts from large-scale Knowledge Graphs (KGs). However, existing methods for pre-training KEPLMs with relational triples are difficult to be adapted to close domains…

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2022

DKPLM: Decomposable Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Model for Natural Language Understanding

AAAI 2022technical

Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models (KEPLMs) are pre-trained models with relation triples injecting from knowledge graphs to improve language understanding abilities.Experiments show that our model outperforms other KEPLMs significantly over zero-shot knowledge probing tasks and multiple…

2022

HiCLRE: A Hierarchical Contrastive Learning Framework for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

ACL 2022findings

Distant supervision assumes that any sentence containing the same entity pairs reflects identical relationships. Previous works of distantly supervised relation extraction (DSRE) task generally focus on sentence-level or bag-level de-noising techniques independently, neglecting the explicit interact…

2022

Revisiting and Advancing Chinese Natural Language Understanding with Accelerated Heterogeneous Knowledge Pre-training

EMNLP 2022industry

Recently, knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models (KEPLMs) improve context-aware representations via learning from structured relations in knowledge bases, and/or linguistic knowledge from syntactic or dependency analysis. Unlike English, there is a lack of high-performing open-source Chinese…

2021

SMedBERT: A Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Model with Structured Semantics for Medical Text Mining

ACL 2021long

Recently, the performance of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has been significantly improved by injecting knowledge facts to enhance their abilities of language understanding. For medical domains, the background knowledge sources are especially useful, due to the massive medical terms and their c…