Rongxin Chen
2026
HAG: Hierarchical Demographic Tree-based Agent Generation for Topic-Adaptive Simulation
Rongxin Chen | Tianyu Wu | Bingbing Xu | JiaTang Luo | Xiucheng Xu | Huawei Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Rongxin Chen | Tianyu Wu | Bingbing Xu | JiaTang Luo | Xiucheng Xu | Huawei Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
High-fidelity agent initialization is crucial for credible Agent-Based Modeling across diverse domains. A robust framework should be Topic-Adaptive, capturing macro-level joint distributions while ensuring micro-level individual rationality. Existing approaches fall into two categories: static data-based retrieval methods that fail to adapt to unseen topics absent from the data, and LLM-based generation methods that lack macro-level distribution awareness, resulting in inconsistencies between micro-level persona attributes and reality. To address these problems, we propose HAG, a Hierarchical Agent Generation framework that formalizes population generation as a two-stage decision process. Firstly, utilizing a World Knowledge Model to infer hierarchical conditional probabilities to construct the Topic-Adaptive Tree, achieving macro-level distribution alignment. Then, grounded real-world data, instantiation and agentic augmentation are carried out to ensure micro-level consistency. Given the lack of specialized evaluation, we establish a multi-domain benchmark and a comprehensive PACE evaluation framework. Extensive experiments show that HAG significantly outperforms representative baselines, reducing population alignment errors by an average of 37.7% and enhancing sociological consistency by 18.8%.
Chain-of-Memory: Lightweight Memory Construction with Dynamic Evolution for LLM Agents
Xiucheng Xu | Bingbing Xu | Tian Xueyun | Zihe Huang | Rongxin Chen | Li Yunfan | Huawei Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Xiucheng Xu | Bingbing Xu | Tian Xueyun | Zihe Huang | Rongxin Chen | Li Yunfan | Huawei Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
External memory systems are pivotal for enabling Large Language Model (LLM) agents to maintain persistent knowledge and perform long-horizon decision-making. Existing paradigms typically follow a two-stage process: computationally expensive memory construction (e.g., structuring data into graphs) followed by naive retrieval-augmented generation. However, our empirical analysis reveals two fundamental limitations: complex construction incurs high costs with marginal performance gains, and simple context concatenation fails to bridge the gap between retrieval recall and reasoning accuracy. To address above challenges, we propose **CoM (Chain-of-Memory)**, a novel framework that advocates for a paradigm shift toward lightweight construction paired with sophisticated utilization. CoM introduces a *Chain-of-Memory* mechanism that organizes retrieved fragments into coherent inference paths through dynamic evolution, utilizing adaptive truncation to prune irrelevant noise. Extensive experiments on the LongMemEval and LoCoMo benchmarks demonstrate that CoM outperforms strong baselines with accuracy gains of 7.5%–10.4%, while drastically reducing computational overhead to approximately 2.7% of token consumption and 6.0% of latency compared to complex memory architectures.
2025
Enhancing the Prototype Network with Local-to-Global Optimization for Few-Shot Relation Extraction
Hui Sun | Rongxin Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
Hui Sun | Rongxin Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
Few-Shot Relation Extraction (FSRE) aims to achieve high classification performance by training relation classification models with a small amount of labeled data. Prototypical networks serve as a straightforward and efficient method for optimizing model performance by combining similarity evaluation and contrastive learning. However, directly integrating these methods can introduce unpredictable noise, such as information redundancy, which hinders classification performance and negatively affects embedding space learning. The technique presented in this paper applies Local-To-Global optimization to enhance prototypical networks in few-shot relation extraction. Specifically, this paper develops a local optimization strategy that indirectly optimizes the prototypes by optimizing the other information contained within the prototypes. It considers relation prototypes as global anchors and incorporates the techniques introduced in this paper, such as information alignment, local contrastive learning, and a local adaptive focal loss function, to address the issues of information redundancy. This approach enables the model to learn a unified and effective embedding space. We conduct extensive experiments on the FewRel 1.0 and FewRel 2.0 datasets to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model.