Zhiheng Zhang
2026
Hetero-Designer: Automated Design of Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous LLMs
Zhiheng Zhang | Yuanzhe Zhang | Bohan Yu | Daojian Zeng | Kang Liu | Jun Zhao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhiheng Zhang | Yuanzhe Zhang | Bohan Yu | Daojian Zeng | Kang Liu | Jun Zhao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
LLM-based Multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown strong capabilities across a wide range of domains. Their success largely hinges on the collaboration topology design, which has emerged as a central research focus in the automated MAS design.However, existing approaches are fundamentally constrained by their reliance on homogeneous LLMs, which significantly limits overall system intelligence.In response to this limitation, we for the first time propose the concept of **Automated Design of Heterogeneous-LLMs-based MAS (ADHM)**.ADHM sheds light on a promising avenue for advancing collective intelligence, which focuses on the automated design of cost-effective MAS composed of diverse LLMsand roles to suit various queries.Toward this challenging goal, we propose **Hetero-Designer**, a novel pipeline that efficiently encodes intricate dependencies among queries, LLMs and roles through a novel Binary-Star Transformer and constructs Hetero-MAS in an autoregressive graph generation process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that **Hetero-Designer** is: (1) high-performing on various benchmarks, (2) economical in reducing overhead, (3) extensible to unseen LLMs and roles.
2024
Improving Continual Few-shot Relation Extraction through Relational Knowledge Distillation and Prototype Augmentation
Zhiheng Zhang | Daojian Zeng | Xue Bai
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Zhiheng Zhang | Daojian Zeng | Xue Bai
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
In this paper, we focus on the challenging yet practical problem of Continual Few-shot Relation Extraction (CFRE), which involves extracting relations in the continuous and iterative arrival of new data with only a few labeled examples. The main challenges in CFRE are overfitting due to few-shot learning and catastrophic forgetting caused by continual learning. To address these problems, we propose a novel framework called RK2DA, which seamlessly integrates prototype-based data augmentation and relational knowledge distillation. Specifically, RK2DA generates pseudo data by introducing Gaussian noise to the prototype embeddings and utilizes a novel two-phase multi-teacher relational knowledge distillation method to transfer various knowledge from different embedding spaces. Experimental results on the FewRel and TACRED datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines.