Qiao Liu
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2026
Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Yuxiang Cai | Run Lin | Guanyu Zhou | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Yuxiang Cai | Run Lin | Guanyu Zhou | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) reasoning seeks to predict future missing facts from historical evidence. While diffusion models (DM) have recently gained attention for their ability to capture complex predictive distributions, two gaps remain: (i) the generative path is conditioned only on positive evidence, overlooking informative negative context, and (ii) training objectives are dominated by cross-entropy ranking, which improves candidate ordering but provides little supervision over the calibration of the denoised embedding. To bridge this gap, we introduce **N**egative-**A**ware **D**iffusion model for TKG **Ex**trapolation (**NADEx**). Specifically, NADEx encodes subject-centric histories of entities, relations and temporal intervals into sequential embeddings. NADEx perturbs the query object in the forward process and reconstructs it in reverse with a Transformer denoiser conditioned on the temporal-relational context. We further derive a cosine-alignment regularizer derived from batch-wise negative prototypes, which tightens the decision boundary against implausible candidates. Comprehensive experiments on four public TKG benchmarks demonstrate that NADEx delivers state-of-the-art performance.
2025
GEMS: Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction via Multi-perspective Prompts and Ontology Steering
Run Lin | Yao Liu | Yanglei Gan | Yuxiang Cai | Tian Lan | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Run Lin | Yao Liu | Yanglei Gan | Yuxiang Cai | Tian Lan | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Generative methods significantly advance event argument extraction by probabilistically generating event argument sequences in a structured format. However, existing approaches primarily rely on a single prompt to generate event arguments in a fixed, predetermined order. Such a rigid approach overlooks the complex structural and dynamic interdependencies among event arguments. In this work, we present GEMS, a multi-prompt learning framework that Generates Event arguments via Multi-perspective prompts and ontology Steering. Specifically, GEMS utilizes multiple unfilled prompts for each sentence, predicting event arguments in varying sequences to explicitly capture the interrelationships between arguments. These predictions are subsequently aggregated using a voting mechanism. Furthermore, an ontology-driven steering mechanism is proposed to ensure that the generated arguments are contextually appropriate and consistent with event-specific knowledge. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that GEMS achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly in low-resource settings. The source code is available at: https://github.com/AONE-NLP/EAE-GEMS
SCE: Semantic Consistency Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Yanwen Huang | Yao Liu | Qiao Liu | Rui Hou | Tingting Dai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Yanwen Huang | Yao Liu | Qiao Liu | Rui Hou | Tingting Dai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Multi-hop reasoning with reinforcement learning has proven effective in discovering inference paths in incomplete knowledge graphs. However, a major challenge remains: spurious paths (incorrect reasoning paths that accidentally lead to correct answers) often arise due to reward mechanisms that prioritize final results over reasoning quality. While existing approaches attempt to mitigate this issue using external rules, they often neglect the internal semantic consistency between the target triple and the intermediate triples along the reasoning path. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Semantic Consistency Enhanced Reinforcement Learning (SCE), which incorporates semantic consistency into the reward function to guide multi-hop reasoning. Experimental results demonstrate that SCE outperforms strong baseline methods and facilitates the discovery of more interpretable reasoning paths.
2024
Predicting the Unpredictable: Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs via Diffusion Process
Yuxiang Cai | Qiao Liu | Yanglei Gan | Changlin Li | Xueyi Liu | Run Lin | Da Luo | JiayeYang JiayeYang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Yuxiang Cai | Qiao Liu | Yanglei Gan | Changlin Li | Xueyi Liu | Run Lin | Da Luo | JiayeYang JiayeYang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) reasoning seeks to predict future incomplete facts leveraging historical data. While existing approaches have shown effectiveness in addressing the task through various perspectives, such as graph learning and logic rules, they are limited in capturing the indeterminacy in future events, particularly in the case of rare/unseen facts. To tackle the highlighted issues, we introduce a novel approach by conceptualizing TKG reasoning as a sequence denoising process for future facts, namely DiffuTKG. Concretely, we first encodes the historical events as the conditional sequence. Then we gradually introduce Gaussian noise to corrupt target facts during the forward process and then employ a transformer-based conditional denoiser to restore them in the reverse phase. Moreover, we introduce an uncertainty regularization loss to mitigate the risk of prediction biases by favoring frequent scenarios over rare/unseen facts. Empirical results on four real-world datasets show that DiffuTKG outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple evaluation metrics.