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Zequn Sun

15 accepted papers

2026

Answering the Unanswerable Is to Err Knowingly: Analyzing and Mitigating Abstention Failures in Large Reasoning Models

AAAI 2026technical

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown remarkable progress on complex reasoning tasks. However, some questions posed to LRMs are inherently unanswerable, such as math problems lacking sufficient conditions. We find that LRMs continually fail to provide appropriate abstentions when confronted with

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2026

WavefrontDiffusion: Dynamic Decoding Schedule for Improved Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have shown strong potential for text generation and are becoming a competitive alternative to autoregressive models. The denoising strategy plays an important role in determining the quality of their outputs. Mainstream denoising strategies include Standard Diffusio…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Mitigating Lost-in-Retrieval Problems in Retrieval Augmented Multi-Hop Question Answering

ACL 2025long

In this paper, we identify a critical problem, “lost-in-retrieval”, in retrieval-augmented multi-hop question answering (QA): the key entities are missed in LLMs’ sub-question decomposition. “Lost-in-retrieval” significantly degrades the retrieval performance, which disrupts the reasoning chain and…

2024

A Prompt-Based Knowledge Graph Foundation Model for Universal In-Context Reasoning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Extensive knowledge graphs (KGs) have been constructed to facilitate knowledge-driven tasks across various scenarios. However, existing work usually develops separate reasoning models for different KGs, lacking the ability to generalize and transfer knowledge across diverse KGs and reasoning setting…

2024

KnowLA: Enhancing Parameter-efficient Finetuning with Knowledgeable Adaptation

NAACL 2024long

Parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) is a key technique for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. In this paper, we study leveraging knowledge graph embeddings to improve the effectiveness of PEFT. We propose a knowledgeable adaptation method called KnowLA. It inserts an adapta…

2023

Enabling Abductive Learning to Exploit Knowledge Graph

IJCAI 2023poster

Most systems integrating data-driven machine learning with knowledge-driven reasoning usually rely on a specifically designed knowledge base to enable efficient symbolic inference. However, it could be cumbersome for the nonexpert end-users to prepare such a knowledge base in real tasks. Recent year…

2023

Lifelong Embedding Learning and Transfer for Growing Knowledge Graphs

AAAI 2023technical

Existing knowledge graph (KG) embedding models have primarily focused on static KGs. However, real-world KGs do not remain static, but rather evolve and grow in tandem with the development of KG applications. Consequently, new facts and previously unseen entities and relations continually emerge, ne…

2023

Newton–Cotes Graph Neural Networks: On the Time Evolution of Dynamic Systems

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Reasoning system dynamics is one of the most important analytical approaches for many scientific studies. With the initial state of a system as input, the recent graph neural networks (GNNs)-based methods are capable of predicting the future state distant in time with high accuracy. Although these m…

2023

What Makes Entities Similar? A Similarity Flooding Perspective for Multi-sourced Knowledge Graph Embeddings

ICML 2023poster

Joint representation learning over multi-sourced knowledge graphs (KGs) yields transferable and expressive embeddings that improve downstream tasks. Entity alignment (EA) is a critical step in this process. Despite recent considerable research progress in embedding-based EA, how it works remains to…

2022

Dangling-Aware Entity Alignment with Mixed High-Order Proximities

NAACL 2022findings

We study dangling-aware entity alignment in knowledge graphs (KGs), which is an underexplored but important problem. As different KGs are naturally constructed by different sets of entities, a KG commonly contains some dangling entities that cannot find counterparts in other KGs. Therefore, dangling…

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2022

Ensemble Semi-supervised Entity Alignment via Cycle-Teaching

AAAI 2022technical

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs. Although embedding-based entity alignment has recently achieved remarkable progress, training data insufficiency remains a critical challenge. Conventional semi-supervised methods also suffer from the incorrect entity alig…

2022

Understanding and Improving Knowledge Graph Embedding for Entity Alignment

ICML 2022spotlight

Embedding-based entity alignment (EEA) has recently received great attention. Despite significant performance improvement, few efforts have been paid to facilitate understanding of EEA methods. Most existing studies rest on the assumption that a small number of pre-aligned entities can serve as anch…

2019

Learning to Exploit Long-term Relational Dependencies in Knowledge Graphs

ICML 2019oral

We study the problem of knowledge graph (KG) embedding. A widely-established assumption to this problem is that similar entities are likely to have similar relational roles. However, existing related methods derive KG embeddings mainly based on triple-level learning, which lack the capability of cap…