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Xiaowang Zhang

12 accepted papers

2026

A Progressive Evidence Localization Framework Based on Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Document Visual Question Answering

ICML 2026poster

Precise evidence region localization in Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) is crucial for improving model interpretability and reliability. However, most existing approaches rely on single-step localization, which struggles to effectively distinguish true evidence from irrelevant content wh…

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2026

NeuroRule: Bridging Vision and Logic with Differentiable Rule Induction

CVPR 2026

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) aims to structurally represent visual scenes by detecting objects and their pairwise relationships. Despite significant progress, current models encode visual knowledge with ambiguous visual context and logically inferred implicit relations due to their purely neural, pi

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Stance Detection Using Chain-of-Thought Alignment

ACL 2025finding

Cross-lingual stance detection identifies users’ attitudes toward specific targets in texts by transferring knowledge from source languages to target languages. Previous studies have typically facilitated this transfer by translating and aligning labels or targets. However, these methods cannot effe…

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2025

Faithful Inference Chains Extraction for Fact Verification over Multi-view Heterogeneous Graph with Causal Intervention

COLING 2025main

KG-based fact verification verifies the truthfulness of claims by retrieving evidence graphs from the knowledge graph. The *faithful inference chains*, which are precise relation paths between the mentioned entities and evidence entities, retrieve precise evidence graphs addressing poor performance…

2025

NAAST-GNN: Neighborhood Adaptive Aggregation and Spectral Tuning for Graph Anomaly Detection

IJCAI 2025

Heterophily emerges as a critical challenge in Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD). Recent studies reveal that neighborhood distributions, rather than heterophily itself, are the fundamental factor for the expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, two key challenges remain unresolved. Fir

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2024

An Event-based Abductive Learning for Hard Time-sensitive Question Answering

COLING 2024main

Time-Sensitive Question Answering (TSQA) is to answer questions qualified for a certain timestamp based on the given document. It is split into easy and hard modes depending on whether the document contain time qualifiers mentioned in the question. While existing models have performed well on easy m…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Causal Intervention for Mitigating Name Bias in Machine Reading Comprehension

ACL 2023findings

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is to answer questions based on a given passage, which has made great achievements using pre-trained Language Models (LMs). We study the robustness of MRC models to names which is flexible and repeatability. MRC models based on LMs may overuse the name information…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Document-level Relationship Extraction by Bidirectional Constraints of Beta Rules

EMNLP 2023long main

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) aims to extract relations among entity pairs in documents. Some works introduce logic constraints into DocRE, addressing the issues of opacity and weak logic in original DocRE models. However, they only focus on forward logic constraints and the rules mined…

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2023

Reducing Sentiment Bias in Pre-trained Sentiment Classification via Adaptive Gumbel Attack

AAAI 2023technical

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have recently enabled rapid progress on sentiment classification under the pre-train and fine-tune paradigm, where the fine-tuning phase aims to transfer the factual knowledge learned by PLMs to sentiment classification. However, current fine-tuning methods ignore…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

Function-words Adaptively Enhanced Attention Networks for Few-Shot Inverse Relation Classification

IJCAI 2022poster

The relation classification is to identify semantic relations between two entities in a given text. While existing models perform well for classifying inverse relations with large datasets, their performance is significantly reduced for few-shot learning. In this paper, we propose a function words a…

2022

Learning Disentangled Semantic Representations for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension

ACL 2022long

Multilingual pre-trained models are able to zero-shot transfer knowledge from rich-resource to low-resource languages in machine reading comprehension (MRC). However, inherent linguistic discrepancies in different languages could make answer spans predicted by zero-shot transfer violate syntactic co…

2021

Re-embedding Difficult Samples via Mutual Information Constrained Semantically Oversampling for Imbalanced Text Classification

EMNLP 2021main

Difficult samples of the minority class in imbalanced text classification are usually hard to be classified as they are embedded into an overlapping semantic region with the majority class. In this paper, we propose a Mutual Information constrained Semantically Oversampling framework (MISO) that can…

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