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Zhao Kang

25 accepted papers

2026

Clustering as Reasoning: A $k$-Means Interpretation of Chain-of-Thought Graph Learning

ICML 2026poster

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on text-attributed graphs (TAGs). This work reframes CoT-based graph learning through the principle of clustering as reasoning, offering a $k$-means interpretation of how iterat…

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2026

Extracting Events Like Code: A Multi-Agent Programming Framework for Zero-Shot Event Extraction

AAAI 2026technical

Zero-shot event extraction (ZSEE) remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the need for complex reasoning and domain-specific understanding. Direct prompting often yields incomplete or structurally invalid outputs—such as misclassified triggers, missing arguments, and

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2026

ITPP: Learning Disentangled Event Dynamics in Marked Temporal Point Processes

AAAI 2026technical

Marked Temporal Point Processes (MTPPs) provide a principled framework for modeling asynchronous event sequences by conditioning on the history of past events. However, most existing MTPP models rely on channel-mixing strategies that encode information from different event types into a single, fixed

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2025

BANER: Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition

COLING 2025main

Despite the recent success of two-stage prototypical networks in few-shot named entity recognition (NER), challenges such as over/under-detected false spans in the span detection stage and unaligned entity prototypes in the type classification stage persist. Additionally, LLMs have not proven to be…

2025

Bridging Generative and Discriminative Learning: Few-Shot Relation Extraction via Two-Stage Knowledge-Guided Pre-training

IJCAI 2025

Few-Shot Relation Extraction (FSRE) remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of annotated data and the limited generalization capabilities of existing models. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in FSRE through in-context learning, their general-purpose training objectiv

2025

Cooperation of Experts: Fusing Heterogeneous Information with Large Margin

ICML 2025poster

Fusing heterogeneous information remains a persistent challenge in modern data analysis. While significant progress has been made, existing approaches often fail to account for the inherent heterogeneity of object patterns across different semantic spaces. To address this limitation, we propose the…

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2025

InfMasking: Unleashing Synergistic Information by Contrastive Multimodal Interactions

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

In multimodal representation learning, synergistic interactions between modalities not only provide complementary information but also create unique outcomes through specific interaction patterns that no single modality could achieve alone. Existing methods may struggle to effectively capture the fu…

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2025

Multi-Domain Graph Foundation Models: Robust Knowledge Transfer via Topology Alignment

ICML 2025poster

Recent advances in CV and NLP have inspired researchers to develop general-purpose graph foundation models through pre-training across diverse domains. However, a fundamental challenge arises from the substantial differences in graph topologies across domains. Additionally, real-world graphs are oft…

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2025

On the Benefits of Attribute-Driven Graph Domain Adaptation

ICLR 2025poster

Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) addresses a pressing challenge in cross-network learning, particularly pertinent due to the absence of labeled data in real-world graph datasets. Recent studies attempted to learn domain invariant representations by eliminating structural shifts between graphs. In this…

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2025

One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph Clustering

AAAI 2025technical

Most existing graph clustering methods primarily focus on exploiting topological structure, often neglecting the "missing-half" node feature information, especially how these features can enhance clustering performance. This issue is further compounded by the challenges associated with high-dimensio…

2024

Beyond Redundancy: Information-aware Unsupervised Multiplex Graph Structure Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Unsupervised Multiplex Graph Learning (UMGL) aims to learn node representations on various edge types without manual labeling. However, existing research overlooks a key factor: the reliability of the graph structure. Real-world data often exhibit a complex nature and contain abundant task-irrelevan…

2024

FCDS: Fusing Constituency and Dependency Syntax into Document-Level Relation Extraction

COLING 2024main

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) aims to identify relation labels between entities within a single document. It requires handling several sentences and reasoning over them. State-of-the-art DocRE methods use a graph structure to connect entities across the document to capture dependency sy…

2024

Fine-Grained Bipartite Concept Factorization for Clustering

CVPR 2024poster

In this paper we propose a novel concept factorization method that seeks factor matrices using a cross-order positive semi-definite neighbor graph which provides comprehensive and complementary neighbor information of the data. The factor matrices are learned with bipartite graph partitioning which…

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2024

PC-Conv: Unifying Homophily and Heterophily with Two-Fold Filtering

AAAI 2024technical

Recently, many carefully designed graph representation learning methods have achieved impressive performance on either strong heterophilic or homophilic graphs, but not both. Therefore, they are incapable of generalizing well across real-world graphs with different levels of homophily. This is attri…

2024

Question-guided Knowledge Graph Re-scoring and Injection for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

EMNLP 2024finding

Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) involves answering natural language questions by leveraging structured information stored in a knowledge graph. Typically, KGQA initially retrieve a targeted subgraph from a large-scale knowledge graph, which serves as the basis for reasoning models to addre…

2024

Upper Bounding Barlow Twins: A Novel Filter for Multi-Relational Clustering

AAAI 2024technical

Multi-relational clustering is a challenging task due to the fact that diverse semantic information conveyed in multi-layer graphs is difficult to extract and fuse. Recent methods integrate topology structure and node attribute information through graph filtering. However, they often use a low-pass…

2022

Eliminating Gradient Conflict in Reference-Based Line-Art Colorization

ECCV 2022poster

"Reference-based line-art colorization is a challenging task in computer vision. The color, texture, and shading are rendered based on an abstract sketch, which heavily relies on the precise long-range dependency modeling between the sketch and reference. Popular techniques to bridge the cross-modal…

2019

RES-PCA: A Scalable Approach to Recovering Low-Rank Matrices

CVPR 2019poster

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) has drawn significant attentions due to its powerful capability in recovering low-rank matrices as well as successful appplications in various real world problems. The current state-of-the-art algorithms usually need to solve singular value decomposition of…

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