Lei Sun
2026
Beyond Query Bias: Candidate-Aware Iterative Refinement for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
Nan Sun | Jing Tang | Lei Sun | Rui Chen | Yuxing Lu | Xiangxiang Chu | Hefei Ling | Yujun Cai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Nan Sun | Jing Tang | Lei Sun | Rui Chen | Yuxing Lu | Xiangxiang Chu | Hefei Ling | Yujun Cai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) retrieves target images using a reference image and modification text without task-specific training. Existing methods typically rely on MLLMs to generate query vectors with pre-trained models like CLIP. However, those constructed queries suffer from inherent cognitive bias due to unknown candidate distribution. We propose CoRR, a training-free framework that reframes ZS-CIR as a self-correcting process through bias-aware query refinement. CoRR uses retrieved results as feedback to perceive the candidate distribution. With carefully designed CoT prompting, the MLLM inspects the retrieved candidates to identify intent misalignments in the query and then corrects them via Historical Query Fusion. We also introduce Retrieval-Driven Caption Optimization to provide context-aligned examples, reducing phrasing and style mismatches. Experiments on public benchmarks show that CoRR significantly outperforms other SOTA methods.
2024
Revealing Personality Traits: A New Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Personality Recognition on Dialogues
Lei Sun | Jinming Zhao | Qin Jin
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Lei Sun | Jinming Zhao | Qin Jin
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Personality recognition aims to identify the personality traits implied in user data such as dialogues and social media posts. Current research predominantly treats personality recognition as a classification task, failing to reveal the supporting evidence for the recognized personality. In this paper, we propose a novel task named Explainable Personality Recognition, aiming to reveal the reasoning process as supporting evidence of the personality trait. Inspired by personality theories, personality traits are made up of stable patterns of personality state, where the states are short-term characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a concrete situation at a specific moment in time. We propose an explainable personality recognition framework called Chain-of-Personality-Evidence (CoPE), which involves a reasoning process from specific contexts to short-term personality states to long-term personality traits. Furthermore, based on the CoPE framework, we construct an explainable personality recognition dataset from dialogues, PersonalityEvd. We introduce two explainable personality state recognition and explainable personality trait recognition tasks, which require models to recognize the personality state and trait labels and their corresponding support evidence. Our extensive experiments based on Large Language Models on the two tasks show that revealing personality traits is very challenging and we present some insights for future research. We will release our dataset and source code to facilitate further studies in this direction.
ODA: Observation-Driven Agent for integrating LLMs and Knowledge Graphs
Lei Sun | Zhengwei Tao | Youdi Li | Hiroshi Arakawa
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Lei Sun | Zhengwei Tao | Youdi Li | Hiroshi Arakawa
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs) has achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks. However, existing methodologies that integrate LLMs and KGs often navigate the task-solving process solely based on the LLM’s analysis of the question, overlooking the rich cognitive potential inherent in the vast knowledge encapsulated in KGs. To address this, we introduce Observation-Driven Agent (ODA), a novel AI agent framework tailored for tasks involving KGs. ODA incorporates KG reasoning abilities via global observation, which enhances reasoning capabilities through a cyclical paradigm of observation, action, and reflection. Confronting the exponential explosion of knowledge during observation, we innovatively design a recursive observation mechanism. Subsequently, we integrate the observed knowledge into the action and reflection modules. Through extensive experiments, ODA demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on several datasets, notably achieving accuracy improvements of 12.87% and 8.9%.