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  • Ralph Grishman

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  • Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents

    Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Yizhe Zhang, Yunzhu Li, Hao Peng, Heng Ji

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes to use executable Python code to consolidate LLM agents' actions into a unified action space (CodeAct), and collects an instruction-tuning dataset CodeActInstruct, which can be used with existing data to improve models in agent-oriented tasks without compromising their general capability.

    699
  • Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

    Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Jonathan May, Joel Nothman, Kevin K. Knight, Heng Ji

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    This work develops a cross-lingual name tagging and linking framework for 282 languages that exist in Wikipedia that is able to identify name mentions, assign a coarse-grained or fine- grained type to each mention, and link it to an English Knowledge Base (KB) if it is linkable.

    595
  • Overview of the TAC 2010 knowledge base population track

    Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman, Hoa Trang Dang, Kira Griffitt, Joe Ellis

    2010

    An overview of the task definition and annotation challenges associated with KBP2010 is provided and the evaluation results and lessons that are learned are discussed based on detailed analysis.

    583
  • Efficient Attentions for Long Document Summarization

    Luyang Huang, Shuyang Cao, Nikolaus Nova Parulian, Heng Ji, Lu Wang

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    Hepos, a novel efficient encoder-decoder attention with head-wise positional strides to effectively pinpoint salient information from the source is proposed, able to process ten times more tokens than existing models that use full attentions.

    488
  • Tool Learning with Foundation Models

    Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin, Weize Chen, Ning Ding, Ganqu Cui, Zheni Zeng, Xuanhe Zhou, +22 more

    ACM Computing Surveys · 2024

    A systematic investigation and comprehensive review of tool learning and discusses several open problems that require further investigation, such as ensuring trustworthy tool use, enabling tool creation with foundation models, and addressing personalization challenges.

    471
  • Large Language Models on Graphs: A Comprehensive Survey

    Bowen Jin, Gang Liu, Chi Han, Meng Jiang, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2024

    A systematic review of scenarios and techniques related to large language models on graphs, including LLM as Predictor, LLM as Encoder, and LLM as Aligner, and compare the advantages and disadvantages of different schools of models is provided.

    367
  • Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym

    Jiayi Pan, Xingyao Wang, Graham Neubig, Navdeep Jaitly, Heng Ji, Alane Suhr, Yizhe Zhang

    arXiv · 2024

    This work presents SWE-Gym, the first environment for training real-world software engineering (SWE) agents, and uses SWE-Gym to train language model based SWE agents, achieving up to 19% absolute gains in resolve rate on the popular SWE-Bench Verified and Lite test sets.

    360
  • A Survey of Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation

    Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Zaitang Li, Zhiting Hu, Qingyun Wang, Heng Ji, Meng Jiang

    ACM Computing Surveys · 2022

    A comprehensive review of the research on knowledge-enhanced text generation over the past five years is presented, which includes two parts: (i) general methods and architectures for integrating knowledge into text generation; (ii) specific techniques and applications according to different forms of knowledge data.

    355
  • A Dependency-Based Neural Network for Relation Classification

    Yang Liu, Furu Wei, Sujian Li, Heng Ji, Ming Zhou, Houfeng Wang

    Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2015

    A new structure, termed augmented dependency path (ADP), is proposed, which is composed of the shortest dependency path between two entities and the subtrees attached to the shortest path, and a dependency-based neural networks (DepNN) are developed to exploit the semantic representation behind the ADP.

    238
  • Text2Mol: Cross-Modal Molecule Retrieval with Natural Language Queries

    Carl Edwards, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

    This work constructs a paired dataset of molecules and their corresponding text descriptions, which it uses to learn an aligned common semantic embedding space for retrieval and extends this to create a cross-modal attention-based model for explainability and reranking by interpreting the attentions as association rules.

    219
  • Text Classification Using Label Names Only: A Language Model Self-Training Approach

    Meng Yu, Yunyi Zhang, Jiaxin Huang, Chenyan Xiong, Heng Ji, Chao Zhang, Jiawei Han

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    This paper uses pre-trained neural language models both as general linguistic knowledge sources for category understanding and as representation learning models for document classification, and achieves around 90% accuracy on four benchmark datasets.

    205
  • Artificial intelligence for science in quantum, atomistic, and continuum systems

    Xuan Zhang, Limei Wang, Jacob Helwig, Youzhi Luo, Cong Fu, Yaochen Xie, Meng Liu, Yuchao Lin, +22 more

    Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning · 2025

    This work aims to provide a technically thorough account of a subarea of AI4Science; namely, AI for quantum, atomistic, and continuum systems, and provides an in-depth yet intuitive account of techniques to achieve equivariance to symmetry transformations.

    189
  • Language Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners

    Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Jie Lei, Xudong Lin, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, +5 more

    arXiv · 2022

    The goal of this work is to build flexible video-language models that can generalize to various video-to-text tasks from few examples, such as domain-specific captioning, question answering, and future event prediction, and to demonstrate the power of language models in understanding videos on a wide variety of video- language tasks.

    175
  • Unlearning Bias in Language Models by Partitioning Gradients

    Charles X. Yu, Sullam Jeoung, Anish Kasi, Pengfei Yu, Heng Ji

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023

    162
  • CLIP-Event: Connecting Text and Images with Event Structures

    Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Shuohang Wang, Luowei Zhou, Xudong Lin, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Heng Ji, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    A contrastive learning framework to enforce vision-language pretraining models to comprehend events and associated argument (participant) roles is proposed, which takes advantage of text information extraction technologies to obtain event structural knowledge, and utilizes multiple prompt functions to contrast difficult negative descriptions by manipulating event structures.

    159
  • Exploring Context and Content Links in Social Media: A Latent Space Method

    Guo-Jun Qi, Charų C. Aggarwal, Qi Tian, Heng Ji, Thomas S. Huang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2011

    156
  • RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning

    Xiusi Chen, Guojian Li, Ziqi Wang, Bowen Jin, Cheng Qian, Wang, Yu, Wang, Hongru, Yu Zhang, +4 more

    arXiv · 2025

    It is hypothesized and validated that integrating reasoning into reward modeling significantly enhances RM's interpretability and performance, and a new class of generative reward models, Reasoning Reward Models (ReasRMs), are introduced, which formulate reward modeling as a reasoning task.

    149
  • Open Vocabulary Electroencephalography-to-Text Decoding and Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification

    Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    It is proposed that the human brain functions as a special text encoder and a novel framework leveraging pre-trained language models (e.g., BART) is proposed, which achieves a 40.1% BLEU-1 score on EEG-To-Text decoding and a 55.6% F1 scoreon zero-shot EEG-based ternary sentiment classification, which significantly outperforms supervised baselines.

    146
  • Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks

    Zhenhailong Wang, Haiyang Xu, Junyang Wang, Xi Zhang, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Heng Ji

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces Mobile-Agent-E, a hierarchical multi-agent framework capable of self-evolution through past experience capable of achieving 22% absolute improvement over previous state-of-the-art approaches across three foundation model backbones.

    145
  • ERICA: Improving Entity and Relation Understanding for Pre-trained Language Models via Contrastive Learning

    Yujia Qin, Yankai Lin, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Heng Ji, Minlie Huang, Maosong Sun, +1 more

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2021

    Experimental results demonstrate that ERICA can improve typical PLMs (BERT and RoBERTa) on several language understanding tasks, including relation extraction, entity typing and question answering, especially under low-resource settings.

    143
  • Translation between Molecules and Natural Language

    Carl Edwards, Tuan Lai, Kevin Ros, Garrett Honke, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2022

    139
  • If LLM Is the Wizard, Then Code Is the Wand: A Survey on How Code Empowers Large Language Models to Serve as Intelligent Agents

    Ke Yang, Jiateng Liu, John Wu, Chaoqi Yang, Yi R. Fung, Sha Li, Zixuan Huang, Xu Cao, +4 more

    arXiv · 2024

    An overview of the various benefits of integrating code into LLMs' training data and how these profound capabilities of LLMs, brought by code, have led to their emergence as intelligent agents in situations where the ability to understand instructions, decompose goals, plan and execute actions, and refine from feedback are crucial to their success on downstream tasks are traced.

    133
  • COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation

    Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Xuan Wang, Nikolaus Nova Parulian, Guangxing Han, Jiawei Ma, Jingxuan Tu, Ying Lin, +19 more

    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations · 2021

    A novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework, COVID-KG, to extract fine-grained multimedia knowledge elements (entities, relations and events) from scientific literature and exploit the constructed multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs) for question answering and report generation.

    130
  • A Multi-lingual Multi-task Architecture for Low-resource Sequence Labeling

    Ying Lin, Shengqi Yang, Veselin Stoyanov, Heng Ji

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2018

    A multi-lingual multi-task architecture to develop supervised models with a minimal amount of labeled data for sequence labeling that proves to be particularly effective for low-resource settings, when there are less than 200 training sentences for the target task.

    117
  • Linking Tweets to News: A Framework to Enrich Short Text Data in Social Media

    Weiwei Guo, Hao Li, Heng Ji, Mona Diab

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013

    This work proposes a graph based latent variable model that models the inter short text correlations (text-to-text information) and shows that using tweet specific feature and news specific feature as well as temporal constraints, it is able to extract text- to-text correlations, and thus completes the semantic picture of a short text.

    117

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