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Boming Yang
dblp:340/3817
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-6298-5711ORCID · corroborated
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 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 | 5 |
| 2024 | RecPrompt: A Self-tuning Prompting Framework for News Recommendation Using Large Language ModelsabstractNews recommendations heavily rely on Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to analyze, understand, and categorize content, enabling personalized suggestions based on user interests and reading behaviors. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have shown promising performance in understanding natural language. However, the extent of their applicability to news recommendation systems remains to be validated. This paper introduces RecPrompt, the first self-tuning prompting framework for news recommendation, leveraging the capabilities of LLMs to perform complex news recommendation tasks. This framework incorporates a news recommender and a prompt optimizer that applies an iterative bootstrapping process to enhance recommendations through automatic prompt engineering. Extensive experimental results with 400 users show that RecPrompt can achieve an improvement of 3.36% in AUC, 10.49% in MRR, 9.64% in nDCG@5, and 6.20% in nDCG@10 compared to deep neural models. Additionally, we introduce TopicScore, a novel metric to assess explainability by evaluating LLM's ability to summarize topics of interest for users. The results show LLM's effectiveness in accurately identifying topics of interest and delivering comprehensive topic-based explanations. Dairui Liu, Boming Yang, Honghui Du, Derek Greene, Neil J. Hurley, Aonghus Lawlor, Ruihai Dong, Irene Li |
CIKM | 2 |
| 2023 | ✨ Going Beyond Local: Global Graph-Enhanced Personalized News RecommendationsabstractPrecisely recommending candidate news articles to users has always been a core challenge for personalized news recommendation systems. Most recent works primarily focus on using advanced natural language processing techniques to extract semantic information from rich textual data, employing content-based methods derived from local historical news. However, this approach lacks a global perspective, failing to account for users’ hidden motivations and behaviors beyond semantic information. To address this challenge, we propose a novel model called GLORY (Global-LOcal news Recommendation sYstem), which combines global representations learned from other users with local representations to enhance personalized recommendation systems. We accomplish this by constructing a Global-aware Historical News Encoder, which includes a global news graph and employs gated graph neural networks to enrich news representations, thereby fusing historical news representations by a historical news aggregator. Similarly, we extend this approach to a Global Candidate News Encoder, utilizing a global entity graph and a candidate news aggregator to enhance candidate news representation. Evaluation results on two public news datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches. Furthermore, our model offers more diverse recommendations1. Boming Yang, Dairui Liu, Toyotaro Suzumura, Ruihai Dong, Irene Li |
RecSys | 1 |