Kuan Xu
2026
Structure-Aware Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Knowledge Graphs without External Knowledge
Kuan Xu | Baoxin Zhang | Shuyue Fan | Ming Chen | Zhipeng Ke | Jian Yu | Xuezhong Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Kuan Xu | Baoxin Zhang | Shuyue Fan | Ming Chen | Zhipeng Ke | Jian Yu | Xuezhong Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zero-shot Relational Learning (ZRL) aims to perform knowledge graph completion when dealing with newly emerging relations without instances of them. However, existing ZRL methods typically depend on external knowledge beyond Knowledge Graphs (KGs), resulting in increased annotation costs and limited practical applicability. To address this issue, we propose a new **S**tructure-**A**ware paradigm for **ZRL**, termed **SAZRL**, that performs ZRL without relying on external knowledge. SAZRL leverages intrinsic structural patterns in KGs to bridge semantic correlations for new relations with existing ones. It constructs structure-aware conditional query graphs based on shared entities and adaptive relation updating module to generate representations for new relations based on the query graphs. We conduct extensive experiments on three real-world benchmarks, **NELL-ZS**, **Wiki-ZS** and **FB15K-ZS**, demonstrating that SAZRL consistently surpasses state-of-the-art ZRL methods, achieving up to **10.66%** improvement in **MRR** while reducing annotation costs and enhancing practical applicability. **The code and data are provided in supplementary materials.**
2022
SeaD: End-to-end Text-to-SQL Generation with Schema-aware Denoising
Kuan Xu | Yongbo Wang | Yongliang Wang | Zihao Wang | Zujie Wen | Yang Dong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
Kuan Xu | Yongbo Wang | Yongliang Wang | Zihao Wang | Zujie Wen | Yang Dong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
On the WikiSQL benchmark, most methods tackle the challenge of text-to-SQL with predefined sketch slots and build sophisticated sub-tasks to fill these slots. Though achieving promising results, these methods suffer from over-complex model structure. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach that enables auto-regressive sequence-to-sequence model to robust text-to-SQL generation. Instead of formulating the task of text-to-SQL as slot-filling, we propose to train sequence-to-sequence model with Schema-aware Denoising (SeaD), which consists of two denoising objectives that train model to either recover input or predict output from two novel erosion and shuffle noises. These model-agnostic denoising objectives act as the auxiliary tasks for structural data modeling during sequence-to-sequence generation. In addition, we propose a clause-sensitive execution guided (EG) decoding strategy to overcome the limitation of EG decoding for generative model. The experiments show that the proposed method improves the performance of sequence-to-sequence model in both schema linking and grammar correctness and establishes new state-of-the-art on WikiSQL benchmark. Our work indicates that the capacity of sequence-to-sequence model for text-to-SQL may have been under-estimated and could be enhanced by specialized denoising task.