Lei Sang
2026
TalkLoRA: Communication-Aware Mixture of Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models
Lin Mu | Haiyang Wang | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Lin Mu | Haiyang Wang | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs), and recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) extensions further enhance flexibility by dynamically combining multiple LoRA experts. However, existing MoE-augmented LoRA methods assume that experts operate independently, often leading to unstable routing, expert dominance. In this paper, we propose TalkLoRA, a communication-aware MoELoRA framework that relaxes this independence assumption by introducing expert-level communication prior to routing. TalkLoRA equips low-rank experts with a lightweight Talking Module that enables controlled information exchange across expert subspaces, producing a more robust global signal for routing. Theoretically, we show that expert communication smooths routing dynamics by mitigating perturbation amplification while strictly generalizing existing MoELoRA architectures. Empirically, TalkLoRA consistently outperforms vanilla LoRA and MoELoRA across diverse language understanding and generation tasks, achieving higher parameter efficiency and more balanced expert routing under comparable parameter budgets. These results highlight structured expert communication as a principled and effective enhancement for MoE-based parameter-efficient adaptation.
GraphLoRA: Structure-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Model Recommendation
Lin Mu | Guoji Wang | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Lin Mu | Guoji Wang | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for recommendation (LLMRec) due to their powerful reasoning and generalization abilities. However, effectively aligning the textual semantics modeled by LLMs with the collaborative signals remains a key challenge. Existing methods either translate collaborative information into textual prompts or inject pre-trained embeddings into the LLM, both of which treat structural information as static input and fail to capture high-order relational dependencies.To bridge this gap, we propose GraphLoRA, a novel framework that generalizes low-rank adaptation from independent to structure-aware propagation. GraphLoRA embeds a trainable graph message-passing network within the low-rank adaptation pathway, enabling structural signals to propagate through the parameter space.This design allows collaborative topology to explicitly guide parameter updates, fostering deep integration between graph-structured and textual semantic information. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that GraphLoRA not only outperforms state-of-the-art LLM-based recommendation methods but also achieves superior generalization, effectively balancing structural reasoning capability with computational efficiency.
2025
DICP: Deep In-Context Prompt for Event Causality Identification
Lin Mu | Jun Shen | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Lin Mu | Jun Shen | Li Ni | Lei Sang | Zhize Wu | Peiquan Jin | Yiwen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Event causality identification (ECI) is a challenging task that involves predicting causal relationships between events in text. Existing prompt-learning-based methods typically concatenate in-context examples only at the input layer, this shallow integration limits the model’s ability to capture the abstract semantic cues necessary for identifying complex causal relationships. To address this limitation, we propose a novel model called Deep In-Context Prompt (DICP), which injects in-context examples into the deeper layer of a pre-trained language model (PLM). This strategy enables the model to leverage the hierarchical semantic representations formed in deeper layers, thereby enhancing its capacity to learn high-level causal abstractions. Moreover, DICP introduces a multi-layer prompt injection mechanism, distributing diverse in-context examples across multiple transformer layers. This design allows the model to recognize a broader range of causal patterns and improves its generalization across different contexts. We evaluate the DICP model through extensive experiments on two widely used datasets, demonstrating its significant improvement in ECI performance compared to existing approaches. Furthermore, we explore the impact of varying the number of deep layers on performance, providing valuable insights into the optimal layer configuration for ECI tasks.