Bofan Wei
2026
Bridging the Sensory Gap: Visual Injection for Taxonomy Completion
Yuhang Niu | Hongyuan Xu | Ciyi Liu | Bofan Wei | Jiaqi Ye | Yanlong Wen | Xiaojie Yuan
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yuhang Niu | Hongyuan Xu | Ciyi Liu | Bofan Wei | Jiaqi Ye | Yanlong Wen | Xiaojie Yuan
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Taxonomy Completion aims to automatically integrate new concepts into existing hierarchies. However, existing text-only methods suffer from a ”Sensory Gap”: they struggle to differentiate ambiguous definitions (e.g., Latte vs. Cappuccino) and miss visual grouping signals. Consequently, they often misinterpret lexical overlaps as hierarchical dependencies, leading to erroneous structural predictions. To bridge this, we propose VITC, a framework leveraging Visual Injection for Taxonomy Completion. By mapping synthesized images into intrinsic pseudo-tokens, we enable the text encoder to perform holistic structural reasoning. To address injection challenges, we introduce Adaptive Residual Fusion, which decouples magnitude from selection to prevent visual signals from being drowned out, and the Multimodal Guided Adaptive Reweighting strategy, which leverages cross-modal consensus (Mutual Rescue and Complementary Mining) to filter noise and identify hard negatives. Experiments on three datasets demonstrate that VITC achieves state-of-the-art performance, delivering an average absolute gain of over 19% in Hit@1. Code is available at https://github.com/nyh-a/VITC.
2025
DTDES-KGE: Dual-Teacher Knowledge Distillation with Distinct Embedding Spaces for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Bofan Wei | Hongyuan Xu | Yuhang Niu | Jiarui Ren | Yanlong Wen | Xiaojie Yuan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Bofan Wei | Hongyuan Xu | Yuhang Niu | Jiarui Ren | Yanlong Wen | Xiaojie Yuan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Knowledge distillation for knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models effectively compresses KGE models by reducing their embedding dimensions. While existing methods distill knowledge from a high-dimensional teacher to a low-dimensional student, they typically rely on a single teacher embedding space, thereby overlooking valuable complementary knowledge from teachers in distinct embedding spaces. This paper introduces DTDES-KGE, a novel knowledge distillation framework that significantly enhances distillation performance by leveraging dual teachers in distinct embedding spaces. To overcome the challenge of spatial heterogeneity when integrating knowledge from dual teachers, we propose a spatial compatibility module for reconciliation. Additionally, we introduce a student-aware knowledge fusion mechanism to fuse the knowledge from dual teachers dynamically. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets validate the effectiveness of DTDES-KGE.