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Moritz Blum
dblp:340/1385
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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-4924-3903ORCID · corroborated
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | AGENTiGraph: A Multi-Agent Knowledge Graph Framework for Interactive, Domain-Specific LLM ChatbotsabstractAGENTiGraph is a user-friendly, agent-driven system that enables intuitive interaction and management of domain-specific data through the manipulation of knowledge graphs in natural language. It gives non-technical users a complete, visual solution to incrementally build and refine their knowledge bases, allowing multi-round dialogues and dynamic updates without specialized query languages. The flexible design of AGENTiGraph, including intent classification, task planning, and automatic knowledge integration, ensures seamless reasoning between diverse tasks. Evaluated on a 3,500-query benchmark within an educational scenario, the system outperforms strong zero-shot baselines (achieving 95.12% classification accuracy, 90.45% execution success), indicating potential scalability to compliance-critical or multi-step queries in legal and medical domains, e.g., incorporating new statutes or research on the fly. Our open-source demo offers a powerful new paradigm for multi-turn enterprise knowledge management that bridges LLMs and structured graphs. Xinjie Zhao 0004, Moritz Blum, Yingjian Chen, Boming Yang, Luis Marquez-Carpintero, Monica Pina-Navarro, Yanran Fu, So Morikawa, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Chanjun Park, Irene Li |
CIKM | 2 |
| 2025 | Finding Good Neighbors: Examining the Importance of Neighborhood Selection for Link PredictionabstractLink Prediction (LP) approaches based on Language Models (LMs) operate over the labels and descriptions of entities and relations in a Knowledge Graph (KG). Recent approaches have shown that incorporating a local graph neighborhood can improve the LP capabilities of LMs. These approaches usually sample a context from the neighborhood around a query triple randomly, thereby incorporating noise that might hinder the model in making correct predictions. Moritz Blum, Moritz Plenz, Basil Ell, Philipp Cimiano |
K-CAP | 1 |
| 2024 | Pointing Out the Shortcomings of Relation Extraction Models with Semantically Motivated AdversarialsabstractIn recent years, large language models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across various NLP tasks. However, investigations have shown that these models tend to rely on shortcut features, leading to inaccurate predictions and causing the models to be unreliable at generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. For instance, in the context of relation extraction (RE), we would expect a model to identify the same relation independently of the entities involved in it. For example, consider the sentence “Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa” expressing the created(Leonardo_da_Vinci, Mona_Lisa) relation. If we substiute “Leonardo da Vinci” with “Barack Obama”, then the sentence still expresses the created relation. A robust model is supposed to detect the same relation in both cases. In this work, we describe several semantically-motivated strategies to generate adversarial examples by replacing entity mentions and investigate how state-of-the-art RE models perform under pressure. Our analyses show that the performance of these models significantly deteriorates on the modified datasets (avg. of -48.5% in F1), which indicates that these models rely to a great extent on shortcuts, such as surface forms (or patterns therein) of entities, without making full use of the information present in the sentences. Gennaro Nolano, Moritz Blum, Basil Ell, Philipp Cimiano |
LREC/COLING | 2 |
| 2024 | Numerical Literals in Link Prediction: A Critical Examination of Models and Datasets
Moritz Blum, Basil Ell, Hannes Ill, Philipp Cimiano |
ISWC (1) | 1 |