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Xiang Zhao

20 accepted papers

2026

Iterative Multi-Granular RAG with Contextual Hierarchical Graph

AAAI 2026technical

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge retrieval, improving factual accuracy and knowledge coverage. However, existing RAG approaches face a fundamental trade-off when handling complex reasoning: while traditional iterative retrieval method

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Multi-granularity Temporal Knowledge Editing over Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

The evolving worldly dynamics necessitate continuous revision and updating of knowledge within Large Language Models (LLMs), driving the development of Knowledge Editing (KE) techniques. Recently, a novel paradigm of Temporal Knowledge Editing (TKE) has been proposed, emphasizing that models deploye

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

NeSTR: A Neuro-Symbolic Abductive Framework for Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. However, temporal reasoning, particularly under complex temporal constraints, remains a major challenge. To this end, existing approaches have explored symbolic methods, wh

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

STDDN: A Physics-Guided Deep Learning Framework for Crowd Simulation

ICLR 2026poster

Accurate crowd simulation is crucial for public safety management, emergency evacuation planning, and intelligent transportation systems. However, existing methods, which typically model crowds as a collection of independent individual trajectories, are limited in their ability to capture macroscopi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Dynamic Graph Recommendation via Sparse Augmentation and Singular Adaptation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Dynamic recommendation, focusing on modeling user preference from historical interactions and providing recommendations on current time, plays a key role in many personalized services. Recent works show that pre-trained dynamic graph neural networks (GNNs) can achieve excellent performance. However,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Dynamic-prototype Contrastive Fine-tuning for Continual Few-shot Relation Extraction with Unseen Relation Detection

COLING 2025main

Continual Few-shot Relation Extraction (CFRE) aims to continually learn new relations from limited labeled data while preserving knowledge about previously learned relations. Facing the inherent issue of catastrophic forgetting, previous approaches predominantly rely on memory replay strategies. How…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Each Fake News Is Fake in Its Own Way: An Attribution Multi-Granularity Benchmark for Multimodal Fake News Detection

AAAI 2025technical

Social platforms, while facilitating access to information, have also become saturated with a plethora of fake news, resulting in negative consequences. Automatic multimodal fake news detection is a worthwhile pursuit. Existing multimodal fake news datasets only provide binary labels of real or fake…

2025

How Do Social Bots Participate in Misinformation Spread? A Comprehensive Dataset and Analysis

EMNLP 2025

Social media platforms provide an ideal environment to spread misinformation, where social bots can accelerate the spread. This paper explores the interplay between social bots and misinformation on the Sina Weibo platform. We construct a large-scale dataset that includes annotations for both misinf

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Logic Induced High-Order Reasoning Network for Event-Event Relation Extraction

AAAI 2025technical

To understand a document with multiple events, event-event relation extraction (ERE) emerges as a crucial task, aiming to discern how natural events temporally or structurally associate with each other. To achieve this goal, our work addresses the problems of temporal event relation extraction (TRE)…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Multi-Modal Entities Matter: Benchmarking Multi-Modal Entity Alignment

COLING 2025main

Multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) is a long-standing task that aims to discover identical entities between different multi-modal knowledge graphs (MMKGs). However, most of the existing MMEA datasets consider the multi-modal data as the attributes of textual entities, while neglecting the correlati…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

On the Risk of Evidence Pollution for Malicious Social Text Detection in the Era of LLMs

ACL 2025long

Evidence-enhanced detectors present remarkable abilities in identifying malicious social text. However, the rise of large language models (LLMs) brings potential risks of evidence pollution to confuse detectors. This paper explores potential manipulation scenarios including basic pollution, and reph…

2025

RDPI: A Refine Diffusion Probability Generation Method for Spatiotemporal Data Imputation

AAAI 2025technical

Spatiotemporal data imputation plays a crucial role in various fields such as traffic flow monitoring, air quality assessment, and climate prediction. However, spatiotemporal data collected by sensors often suffer from temporal incompleteness, and the sparse and uneven distribution of sensors leads…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Semantic and Sentiment Dual-Enhanced Generative Model for Script Event Prediction

COLING 2025main

Script Event Prediction (SEP) aims to forecast the next event in a sequence from a list of candidates. Traditional methods often use pre-trained language models to model event associations but struggle with semantic ambiguity and embedding bias. Semantic ambiguity arises from the multiple meanings o…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Distill, Fuse, Pre-train: Towards Effective Event Causality Identification with Commonsense-Aware Pre-trained Model

COLING 2024main

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to detect causal relations between events in unstructured texts. This task is challenged by the lack of data and explicit causal clues. Some methods incorporate explicit knowledge from external knowledge graphs (KGs) into Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) t…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Event-Radar: Event-driven Multi-View Learning for Multimodal Fake News Detection

ACL 2024long

The swift detection of multimedia fake news has emerged as a crucial task in combating malicious propaganda and safeguarding the security of the online environment. While existing methods have achieved commendable results in modeling entity-level inconsistency, addressing event-level inconsistency f…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2024

Temporal Knowledge Question Answering via Abstract Reasoning Induction

ACL 2024long

In this study, we address the challenge of enhancing temporal knowledge reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs often struggle with this task, leading to the generation of inaccurate or misleading responses. This issue mainly arises from their limited ability to handle evolving factual knowl…

2022

Extract-Select: A Span Selection Framework for Nested Named Entity Recognition with Generative Adversarial Training

ACL 2022findings

Nested named entity recognition (NER) is a task in which named entities may overlap with each other. Span-based approaches regard nested NER as a two-stage span enumeration and classification task, thus having the innate ability to handle this task. However, they face the problems of error propagati…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2020

Joint Event Extraction with Hierarchical Policy Network

COLING 2020main

Most existing work on event extraction (EE) either follows a pipelined manner or uses a joint structure but is pipelined in essence. As a result, these efforts fail to utilize information interactions among event triggers, event arguments, and argument roles, which causes information redundancy. In…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar