Wenbiao Tao
2026
TagRAG: Tag-guided Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Wenbiao Tao | Xinyuan Li | Yunshi Lan | Weining Qian
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Wenbiao Tao | Xinyuan Li | Yunshi Lan | Weining Qian
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Retrieval-Augmented Generation enhances language models by retrieving external knowledge to support informed and grounded responses. However, traditional RAG methods rely on fragment-level retrieval, limiting their ability to address query-focused summarization queries. GraphRAG introduces a graph-based paradigm for global knowledge reasoning, yet suffers from inefficiencies in information extraction, costly resource consumption, and poor adaptability to incremental updates. To overcome these limitations, we propose TagRAG, a tag-guided hierarchical knowledge graph RAG framework designed for efficient global reasoning and scalable graph maintenance. TagRAG introduces two key components: (1) Tag Knowledge Graph Construction, which extracts object tags and their relationships from documents and organizes them into hierarchical domain tag chains for structured knowledge representation, and (2) Tag-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation, which retrieves domain-centric tag chains to localize and synthesize relevant knowledge during inference. This design significantly adapts to smaller language models, improves retrieval granularity, and supports efficient knowledge increment. Extensive experiments on UltraDomain datasets spanning Agriculture, Computer Science, Law, and cross-domain settings demonstrate that TagRAG achieves an average win rate of 78.36% against baselines while maintaining about 14.6x construction and 1.9x retrieval efficiency compared with GraphRAG.
Unsupervised Text Style Transfer for Controllable Intensity
Shuhuan Gu | Wenbiao Tao | Xinchen Ma | Kangkang He | Ye Guo | Xiang Li | Yunshi Lan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Shuhuan Gu | Wenbiao Tao | Xinchen Ma | Kangkang He | Ye Guo | Xiang Li | Yunshi Lan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Unsupervised Text Style Transfer (UTST) aims to build a system to transfer the stylistic properties of a given text without parallel text pairs.Compared with text transfer between style polarities, UTST for controllable intensity is more challenging due to the subtle differences in stylistic features across different intensity levels.Faced with the challenges posed by the lack of parallel data and the indistinguishability between adjacent intensity levels, we propose a SFT-then-PPO paradigm to fine-tune an LLM.We first fine-tune the LLM with synthesized parallel data.Then, we further train the LLM with PPO, where the rewards are elaborately designed for distinguishing the stylistic intensity in hierarchical levels.Both the global and local stylistic features are considered to formulate the reward functions.The experiments on two UTST benchmarks showcase that both rewards have their advantages and applying them to LLM fine-tuning can effectively improve the performance of an LLM backbone based on various evaluation metrics.Even for adjacent levels of intensity, we can still observe a noticeable stylistic difference among the generated text across these levels.
2025
ComRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Dynamic Vector Stores for Real-time Community Question Answering in Industry
Qinwen Chen | Wenbiao Tao | Zhiwei Zhu | Mingfan Xi | Liangzhong Guo | Yuan Wang | Wei Wang | Yunshi Lan
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
Qinwen Chen | Wenbiao Tao | Zhiwei Zhu | Mingfan Xi | Liangzhong Guo | Yuan Wang | Wei Wang | Yunshi Lan
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms can be deemed as important knowledge bases in community, but effectively leveraging historical interactions and domain knowledge in real-time remains a challenge. Existing methods often underutilize external knowledge, fail to incorporate dynamic historical QA context, or lack memory mechanisms suited for industrial deployment. We propose ComRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation framework for real-time industrial CQA that integrates static knowledge with dynamic historical QA pairs via a centroid-based memory mechanism designed for retrieval, generation, and efficient storage. Evaluated on three industrial CQA datasets, ComRAG consistently outperforms all baselines—achieving up to 25.9% improvement in vector similarity, reducing latency by 8.7%–23.3%, and lowering chunk growth from 20.23% to 2.06% over iterations.