Yao Liu

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2025

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Can Large Language Models Act as Ensembler for Multi-GNNs?
Hanqi Duan | Yao Cheng | Jianxiang Yu | Yao Liu | Xiang Li
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for learning from graph-structured data. However, GNNs lack the inherent semantic understanding capability of rich textual node attributes, limiting their effectiveness in applications. On the other hand, we empirically observe that for existing GNN models, no one can consistently outperforms others across diverse datasets. In this paper, we study whether LLMs can act as an ensembler for multi-GNNs and propose the LensGNN model. The model first aligns multiple GNNs, mapping the representations of different GNNs into the same space. Then, through LoRA fine-tuning, it aligns the space between the GNN and the LLM, injecting graph tokens and textual information into LLMs. This allows LensGNN to ensemble multiple GNNs and take advantage of the strengths of LLM, leading to a deeper understanding of both textual semantic information and graph structural information. The experimental results show that LensGNN outperforms existing models. This research advances text-attributed graph ensemble learning by providing a robust and superior solution for integrating semantic and structural information. We provide our code and data here: https://github.com/AquariusAQ/LensGNN.

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Enhancing LLM-based Hatred and Toxicity Detection with Meta-Toxic Knowledge Graph
Yibo Zhao | Jiapeng Zhu | Can Xu | Yao Liu | Xiang Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

The rapid growth of social media platforms has raised significant concerns regarding online content toxicity. When Large Language Models (LLMs) are used for toxicity detection, two key challenges emerge: 1) the absence of domain-specific toxicity knowledge leads to false negatives; 2) the excessive sensitivity of LLMs to toxic speech results in false positives, limiting freedom of speech. To address these issues, we propose a novel method called *MetaTox*, leveraging graph search on a meta-toxic knowledge graph to enhance hatred and toxicity detection. First, we construct a comprehensive meta-toxic knowledge graph by utilizing LLMs to extract toxic information through a three step pipeline. Second, we query the graph via retrieval and ranking processes to supplement accurate, relevant toxicity knowledge. Extensive experiments and case studies across multiple datasets demonstrate that our MetaTox boosts overall toxicity detection performance, particularly in out-of-domain settings. In addition, under in-domain scenarios, we surprisingly find that small language models are more competent. Our code is available at https://github.com/YiboZhao624/MetaTox.

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SEAGraph: Unveiling the Whole Story of Paper Review Comments
Jianxiang Yu | Jiaqi Tan | Zichen Ding | Jiapeng Zhu | Jiahao Li | Yao Cheng | Qier Cui | Yunshi Lan | Yao Liu | Xiang Li
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Peer review, as a cornerstone of scientific research, ensures the integrity and quality of scholarly work by providing authors with objective feedback for refinement. However, in the traditional peer review process, authors often receive vague or insufficiently detailed feedback, which provides limited assistance and leads to a more time-consuming review cycle. If authors can identify some specific weaknesses in their paper, they can not only address the reviewer’s concerns but also improve their work. This raises the critical question of how to enhance authors’ comprehension of review comments. In this paper, we present SEAGraph a novel framework developed to clarify review comments by uncovering the underlying intentions behind them. We construct two types of graphs for each paper: the semantic mind graph, which captures the author’s thought process, and the hierarchical background graph, which delineates the research domains related to the paper. A retrieval method is then designed to extract relevant content from both graphs, facilitating coherent explanations for the review comments. Extensive experiments show that SEAGraph excels in review comment understanding tasks, offering significant benefits to authors. By bridging the gap between reviewers’ critiques and authors’ comprehension, SEAGraph contributes to a more efficient, transparent, and collaborative scientific publishing ecosystem. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/seagraph/.

2024

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InstructGraph: Boosting Large Language Models via Graph-centric Instruction Tuning and Preference Alignment
Jianing Wang | Junda Wu | Yupeng Hou | Yao Liu | Ming Gao | Julian McAuley
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024

Do current large language models (LLMs) better solve graph reasoning and generation tasks with parameter updates? In this paper, we propose InstructGraph, a framework that empowers LLMs with the abilities of graph reasoning and generation by instruction tuning and preference alignment. Specifically, we first propose a structured format verbalizer to unify all graph data into a universal code-like format, which can simply represent the graph without any external graph-specific encoders. Furthermore, a graph instruction tuning stage is introduced to guide LLMs in solving graph reasoning and generation tasks. Finally, we identify potential hallucination problems in graph tasks and sample negative instances for preference alignment, the target of which is to enhance the output’s reliability of the model. Extensive experiments across multiple graph-centric tasks exhibit that InstructGraph can achieve the best performance and outperform GPT-4 and LLaMA2 by more than 13% and 38%, respectively.