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Zhonghui Zhang

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100%
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Knowledge graphs · 100%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
graph traversal
1.012026
GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation · SIGIR 2026
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
knowledge graph reasoning
1.012026
GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation · SIGIR 2026
Bioinformatics and computational biology › single-cell analysis
cell type annotation
1.012026
GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation · SIGIR 2026
Bioinformatics and computational biology
single-cell analysis
1.012026
GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation · SIGIR 2026
Knowledge graphs
knowledge graph retrieval
1.012026
GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation · SIGIR 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

retrieval-augmented generation · 3.0large language model reasoning · 3.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 GATHER: Convergence-Centric Hyper-Entity Retrieval for Zero-Shot Cell-Type Annotation
abstract
Zero-shot single-cell cell-type annotation aims to determine a cell's type from a given set of expressed genes without any training. Existing knowledge-graph-based RAG approaches retrieve evidence by expanding from source entities and relying on iterative LLM reasoning. However, in this setting each query contains tens to hundreds of genes, where no single gene is decisive and the label emerges only from their collective co-occurrence. Such hyper-entity queries fundamentally challenge local, entity-wise exploration strategies, which reason from individual genes, leading to poor scalability and substantial LLM cost. We propose GATHER (Graph-Aware Traversal with Hyper-Entity Retrieval), a convergence-centric retriever tailored to hyper-entity queries. It performs global multi-source graph traversal and identifies topological convergence points, nodes jointly reachable from many input genes. These convergence nodes act as high-information hyper-entities that capture entity synergy. By incorporating node- and path-importance scoring, GATHER selects informative evidence entirely without LLM involvement during retrieval. Instantiated on a self-constructed cell-centric biological knowledge graph (VCKG), GATHER outperforms strong KG-RAG baselines (ToG, ToG-2, RoG, PoG) on two datasets (Immune and Lung), achieving the highest exact-match accuracy (27.45% and 59.64%) with only a single LLM call per sample, compared to 2 to 61 calls for KG-RAG baselines. Our results demonstrate that convergence nodes compress multi-entity signals into compact, high-information evidence that conveys more per item than multi-hop paths, providing an efficient global alternative to local entity-wise reasoning.
Zhonghui Zhang, Feng Jiang 0007, Shaowei Qin, Min Yang 0007
SIGIR1