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Publications (13)

cs.CL2020

Knowledge-aware Attention Network for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction

Huiwei Zhou, Zhuang Liu1, Shixian Ning +3

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) extraction from published scientific literature provides additional support for precision medicine efforts. However, many of the current PPI extra…

cs.LG2024

Tractable MCMC for Private Learning with Pure and Gaussian Differential Privacy

Yingyu Lin, Yi-An Ma, Yu-Xiang Wang +2

Posterior sampling, i.e., exponential mechanism to sample from the posterior distribution, provides -pure differential privacy (DP) guarantees and does not suffer from…

cs.CL2019

Knowledge-guided Convolutional Networks for Chemical-Disease Relation Extraction

Huiwei Zhou, Chengkun Lang, Zhuang Liu +3

Background: Automatic extraction of chemical-disease relations (CDR) from unstructured text is of essential importance for disease treatment and drug development. Meanwhile, biomed…

cs.LG2026

On the -Free Inference Complexity of Absorbing Discrete Diffusion

Xunpeng Huang, Yingyu Lin, Nishant Jain +4

Absorbing discrete diffusion has emerged as a dominant framework for discrete data generation. However, a significant disparity remains between its empirical success and theoretica…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning without Ground-Truth Solutions can Improve LLMs

Yingyu Lin, Qiyue Gao, Nikki Lijing Kuang +6

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for training LLMs typically rely on ground-truth answers to assign rewards, limiting their applicability to tasks where the gr…

cs.CL2020

Chemical-induced Disease Relation Extraction with Dependency Information and Prior Knowledge

Huiwei Zhou, Shixian Ning, Yunlong Yang +3

Chemical-disease relation (CDR) extraction is significantly important to various areas of biomedical research and health care. Nowadays, many large-scale biomedical knowledge bases…

cs.LG2025

A Skewness-Based Criterion for Addressing Heteroscedastic Noise in Causal Discovery

Yingyu Lin, Yuxing Huang, Wenqin Liu +6

Real-world data often violates the equal-variance assumption (homoscedasticity), making it essential to account for heteroscedastic noise in causal discovery. In this work, we expl…

stat.ML2025

Almost Linear Convergence under Minimal Score Assumptions: Quantized Transition Diffusion

Xunpeng Huang, Yingyu Lin, Nikki Lijing Kuang +4

Continuous diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in data generation across various domains, yet their efficiency remains constrained by two critical limitations…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data

Haoran Deng, Yingyu Lin, Zhenghao Lin +4

Long-context language models unlock advanced capabilities in reasoning, code generation, and document summarization by leveraging dependencies across extended spans of text. Howeve…

cs.CL2020

Leveraging Prior Knowledge for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction with Memory Network

Huiwei Zhou, Zhuang Liu, Shixian Ning +4

Automatically extracting Protein-Protein Interactions (PPI) from biomedical literature provides additional support for precision medicine efforts. This paper proposes a novel memor…

cs.CL2026

Residual Skill Optimization for Text-to-SQL Ensembles

Jiongli Zhu, Haoquan Guan, Parjanya Prajakta Prashant +8

Text-to-SQL ensembles improve over single-candidate generation by drawing multiple SQL candidates and selecting one, but their effectiveness is bounded by Pass@K, the probability t…

cs.CR2025

Purifying Approximate Differential Privacy with Randomized Post-processing

Yingyu Lin, Erchi Wang, Yi-An Ma +1

We propose a framework to convert -approximate Differential Privacy (DP) mechanisms into -pure DP mechanisms under certain conditions, a proce…

cs.CL2019

Combining Context and Knowledge Representations for Chemical-Disease Relation Extraction

Huiwei Zhou, Yunlong Yang, Shixian Ning +4

Automatically extracting the relationships between chemicals and diseases is significantly important to various areas of biomedical research and health care. Biomedical experts hav…