Luan Zhang


2025

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CompKBQA: Component-wise Task Decomposition for Knowledge Base Question Answering
Yuhang Tian | Dandan Song | Zhijing Wu | Pan Yang | Changzhi Zhou | Jun Yang | Hao Wang | Huipeng Ma | Chenhao Li | Luan Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to extract accurate answers from the Knowledge Base (KB). Traditional Semantic Parsing (SP)-based methods are widely used but struggle with complex queries. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in improving KBQA performance. However, the challenge of generating error-free logical forms remains, as skeleton, topic Entity, and relation Errors still frequently occur. To address these challenges, we propose CompKBQA(Component-wise Task Decomposition for Knowledge Base Question Answering), a novel framework that optimizes the process of fine-tuning a LLM for generating logical forms by enabling the LLM to progressively learn relevant sub-tasks like skeleton generation, topic entity generation, and relevant relations generation. Additionally, we propose R3, which retrieves and incorporates KB information into the process of logical form generation. Experimental evaluations on two benchmark KBQA datasets, WebQSP and CWQ, demonstrate that CompKBQA achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting the importance of task decomposition and KB-aware learning.