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Zhao Li 0009
dblp:181/2856-9
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17ranked-venue papers in the field
6as first author
16since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-3996-255XORCID · conflict
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Information Retrieval & Web Search · 7 (2 first)Database Systems & Data Management · 6 (4 first)Other / Interdisciplinary · 2Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 1Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web & Information Systems · 1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ConvD: Attention Enhanced Dynamic Convolutional Embeddings for Knowledge Graph Completion (Extended Abstract)
Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Ye Yuan 0001 |
ICDE | 2 |
| 2026 | HyCubE: Efficient Knowledge Hypergraph 3D Circular Convolutional Embedding (Extended Abstract)
Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030 |
ICDE | 1 |
| 2026 | KG-BiLM: Knowledge Graph Embedding via Bidirectional Language Models
Xin Wang 0030, Zhao Li 0009, Dongxiao He, Yanbing Li, Wushour Slamu |
WWW | 3 |
| 2026 | ReaLM: Residual Quantization Bridges Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Large Language ModelsabstractLarge Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC), offering strong reasoning and generalization capabilities beyond traditional embedding-based approaches. However, existing LLM-based methods often struggle to fully exploit structured semantic representations, as the continuous embedding space of pretrained KG models is fundamentally misaligned with the discrete token space of LLMs. This discrepancy hinders effective semantic transfer and limits their performance. To address this challenge, we propose ReaLM, a novel and effective framework that bridges the gap between KG embeddings and LLM tokenization through the mechanism of residual vector quantization. ReaLM discretizes pretrained KG embeddings into compact code sequences and integrates them as learnable tokens within the LLM vocabulary, enabling seamless fusion of symbolic and contextual knowledge. Furthermore, we incorporate ontology-guided class constraints to enforce semantic consistency, refining entity predictions based on class-level compatibility. Extensive experiments on two widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that ReaLM achieves state-of-the-art performance, confirming its effectiveness in aligning structured knowledge with large-scale language models. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/xiumu-gg/ReaLM. Xin Wang 0030, Jiaoyan Chen 0001, Lingbing Guo, Zhao Li 0009 |
WWW | 5 |
| 2025 | Ontology-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Completion Using Large Language Models
Xin Wang 0030, Jiaoyan Chen 0001, Zhao Li 0009 |
ISWC (1) | 4 |
| 2025 | HySAE: An Efficient Semantic-Enhanced Representation Learning Model for Knowledge Hypergraph Link PredictionabstractRepresentation learning technique is an effective link prediction paradigm to alleviate the incompleteness of knowledge hypergraphs. However, the n-ary complex semantic information inherent in knowledge hypergraphs causes existing methods to face the dual limitations of weak effectiveness and low efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge hypergraph representation learning model, HySAE, which can achieve a satisfactory trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. Concretely, HySAE builds an efficient semantic-enhanced 3D scalable end-to-end embedding architecture to sufficiently capture knowledge hypergraph n-ary complex semantic information with fewer parameters, which can significantly reduce the computational cost of the model. In particular, we also design an efficient position-aware entity role semantic embedding way and two enhanced semantic learning strategies to further improve the effectiveness and scalability of our proposed method. Extensive experimental results on all datasets demonstrate that HySAE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, with an average improvement of 9.15%, a maximum improvement of 39.44%, an average 10.39x faster, and 75.79% fewer parameters. Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001 |
WWW | 1 |
| 2025 | Large Language Model Enhanced Knowledge Representation Learning: A SurveyabstractAbstract Knowledge Representation Learning (KRL) is crucial for enabling applications of symbolic knowledge from Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to downstream tasks by projecting knowledge facts into vector spaces. Despite their effectiveness in modeling KG structural information, KRL methods are suffering from the sparseness of KGs. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) built on the Transformer architecture presents promising opportunities for enhancing KRL by incorporating textual information to address information sparsity in KGs. LLM-enhanced KRL methods, including three key approaches, encoder-based methods that leverage detailed contextual information, encoder-decoder-based methods that utilize a unified Seq2Seq model for comprehensive encoding and decoding, and decoder-based methods that utilize extensive knowledge from large corpora, have significantly advanced the effectiveness and generalization of KRL in addressing a wide range of downstream tasks. This work provides a broad overview of downstream tasks while simultaneously identifying emerging research directions in these evolving domains. Xin Wang 0030, Haofen Wang, Leong Hou U, Zhao Li 0009 |
Data Sci. Eng. | 5 |
| 2025 | ConvD: Attention Enhanced Dynamic Convolutional Embeddings for Knowledge Graph CompletionabstractKnowledge graphs often suffer from incompleteness issues, which can be alleviated through information completion. However, current state-of-the-art deep knowledge convolutional embedding models rely on external convolution kernels and conventional convolution processes, which limits the feature interaction capability of the model. This paper introduces a novel dynamic convolutional embedding model, named ConvD, which directly reshapes relation embeddings into multiple internal convolution kernels. This approach effectively enhances the feature interactions between relation embeddings and entity embeddings. Simultaneously, we incorporate a priori knowledgeoptimized attention mechanism that assigns distinct contribution weights to multiple relational convolution kernels during dynamic convolution, further boosting the expressive power of the model. Extensive experiments on various datasets show that our proposed model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline methods, with average improvements ranging from 3.28% to 14.69% across all the evaluation metrics, while the number of parameters is reduced by 50.66% to 85.40% compared to other state-of-the-art models. Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001, Ye Yuan 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 2 |
| 2025 | HyCubE: Efficient Knowledge Hypergraph 3D Circular Convolutional EmbeddingabstractKnowledge hypergraph embedding models are usually computationally expensive due to the inherent complex semantic information. However, existing works mainly focus on improving the effectiveness of knowledge hypergraph embedding, making the model architecture more complex and redundant. It is desirable and challenging for knowledge hypergraph embedding to reach a trade-off between model effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end efficient knowledge hypergraph embedding model, HyCubE, which designs a novel3D circular convolutional neural networkand thealternate mask stackstrategy to enhance the interaction and extraction of feature information comprehensively. Furthermore, our proposed model achieves a better trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency by adaptively adjusting the 3D circular convolutional layer structure to handle$n$-ary knowledge tuples of different arities with fewer parameters. In addition, we use a knowledge hypergraph 1-N multilinear scoring way to accelerate the model training efficiency further. Finally, extensive experimental results on all datasets demonstrate that our proposed model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, with an average improvement of 8.22% and a maximum improvement of 33.82% across all metrics. Meanwhile, HyCubE is 6.12x faster, GPU memory usage is 52.67% lower, and the number of parameters is reduced by 85.21% compared with the average metric of the latest state-of-the-art baselines. Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 1 |
| 2024 | TERM: Tree Ensemble Models for Interpretable Rule Mining
Mengyu Zhu, Zhao Li 0009, Yongning Liu |
WISE (1) | 2 |
| 2024 | HJE: Joint Convolutional Representation Learning for Knowledge Hypergraph CompletionabstractKnowledge hypergraph representation learning, which projects entities and$n$-ary relations into a low-dimensional vector space, remains a challenging area to be explored despite the ubiquity of$n$-ary relational facts in the real world. Current methods are always extensions of those used for knowledge graphs with shallow or deep structures. However, shallow and linear models limit the extraction capacity of the latent knowledge, while deep and non-linear models lead to the overabundance of parameters. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge hypergraph completion model called HJE, which utilizes the powerful capability of convolutional neural networks for efficient representation learning. Interaction-enhanced 3D convolution and relation-aware 2D convolution are jointly utilized by HJE to extract explicit and implicit global knowledge and semantic information effectively without compromising the translation property of the model. Moreover, HJE constructs a unified learnable embedding matrix to capture entity position information in knowledge tuples. The entity mask mechanism can naturally couple the multilinear scoring approach for$n$-ary facts to speed up the training convergence of the model. Extensive experimental results on real datasets of knowledge hypergraphs and knowledge graphs demonstrate the superior performance of HJE compared with state-of-the-art baselines. Zhao Li 0009, Chenxu Wang 0014, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 1 |
| 2023 | TKGAT: Temporal Knowledge Graph Representation Learning Using Attention Network
Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030 |
ADMA (2) | 2 |
| 2023 | Knowledge Hypergraph Reasoning Based on Representation Learning
Zhao Li 0009 |
DASFAA (4) | 1 |
| 2023 | HyConvE: A Novel Embedding Model for Knowledge Hypergraph Link Prediction with Convolutional Neural NetworksabstractKnowledge hypergraph embedding, which projects entities and n-ary relations into a low-dimensional continuous vector space to predict missing links, remains a challenging area to be explored despite the ubiquity of n-ary relational facts in the real world. Currently, knowledge hypergraph link prediction methods are essentially simple extensions of those used in knowledge graphs, where n-ary relational facts are decomposed into different subelements. Convolutional neural networks have been shown to have remarkable information extraction capabilities in previous work on knowledge graph link prediction. In this paper, we propose a novel embedding-based knowledge hypergraph link prediction model named HyConvE, which exploits the powerful learning ability of convolutional neural networks for effective link prediction. Specifically, we employ 3D convolution to capture the deep interactions of entities and relations to efficiently extract explicit and implicit knowledge in each n-ary relational fact without compromising its translation property. In addition, appropriate relation and position-aware filters are utilized sequentially to perform two-dimensional convolution operations to capture the intrinsic patterns and position information in each n-ary relation, respectively. Extensive experimental results on real datasets of knowledge hypergraphs and knowledge graphs demonstrate the superior performance of HyConvE compared with state-of-the-art baselines. Chenxu Wang 0014, Xin Wang 0030, Zhao Li 0009, Jianxin Li 0001 |
WWW | 3 |
| 2023 | PosKHG: A Position-Aware Knowledge Hypergraph Model for Link PredictionabstractAbstract Link prediction in knowledge hypergraphs is essential for various knowledge-based applications, including question answering and recommendation systems. However, many current approaches simply extend binary relation methods from knowledge graphs to n-ary relations, which does not allow for capturing entity positional and role information in n-ary tuples. To address this issue, we introduce PosKHG, a method that considers entities’ positions and roles within n-ary tuples. PosKHG uses an embedding space with basis vectors to represent entities’ positional and role information through a linear combination, which allows for similar representations of entities with related roles and positions. Additionally, PosKHG employs a relation matrix to capture the compatibility of both information with all associated entities and a scoring function to measure the plausibility of tuples made up of entities with specific roles and positions. PosKHG achieves full expressiveness and high prediction efficiency. In experimental results, PosKHG achieved an average improvement of 4.1% on MRR compared to other state-of-the-art knowledge hypergraph embedding methods. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PosKHG-C5B3/ . Xin Wang 0030, Chenxu Wang 0014, Zhao Li 0009 |
Data Sci. Eng. | 4 |
| 2021 | DataType-Aware Knowledge Graph Representation Learning in Hyperbolic SpaceabstractKnowledge Graph (KG) representation learning aims to encode both entities and relations into a continuous low-dimensional vector space. Most existing methods only concentrate on learning representations from structural triples in Euclidean space, which cannot well exploit the rich semantic information with hierarchical structure in KGs. In this paper, we propose a novel DataType-aware hyperbolic knowledge representation learning model called DT-GCN, which has the advantage of fully embedding attribute values of data types information. We refine data types into five primitive modalities, including integer, double, Boolean, temporal, and textual. For each modality, an encoder is specifically designed to learn its embedding. In addition, we define a unified space based on Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic space, which is a continuous curvature space that combines advantages of three different spaces. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that our model is consistently better than the state-of-the-art models. The average performance is improved by 2.19% and 3.46% than the optimal baseline model on node classification and link prediction tasks, respectively. The results of ablation experiments demonstrate the advantages of embedding data types information and leveraging the unified space. Yuxin Shen, Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001, Xiaowang Zhang |
CIKM | 2 |
| 2019 | Structural Role Enhanced Attributed Network Embedding
Zhao Li 0009, Xin Wang 0030, Jianxin Li 0001, Qingpeng Zhang |
WISE | 1 |