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title = "{T}axo{P}ro: A Plug-In {L}o{RA}-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion",
author = "Xu, Hongyuan and
Niu, Yuhang and
Liu, Ciyi and
Wen, Yanlong and
Yuan, Xiaojie",
journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
volume = "13",
year = "2025",
address = "Cambridge, MA",
publisher = "MIT Press",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.27/",
doi = "10.1162/tacl_a_00755",
pages = "557--576",
abstract = "Low-resource taxonomy completion aims to automatically insert new concepts into the existing taxonomy, in which only a few in-domain training samples are available. Recent studies have achieved considerable progress by incorporating prior knowledge from pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, these studies tend to overly rely on such knowledge and neglect the shareable knowledge across different taxonomies. In this paper, we propose TaxoPro, a plug-in LoRA-based cross-domain method, that captures shareable knowledge from the high- resource taxonomy to improve PLM-based low-resource taxonomy completion techniques. To prevent negative interference between domain-specific and domain-shared knowledge, TaxoPro decomposes cross- domain knowledge into domain-shared and domain-specific components, storing them using low-rank matrices (LoRA). Additionally, TaxoPro employs two auxiliary losses to regulate the flow of shareable knowledge. Experimental results demonstrate that TaxoPro improves PLM-based techniques, achieving state-of-the-art performance in completing low-resource taxonomies. Code is available at https://github.com/cyclexu/TaxoPro."
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%T TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion
%A Xu, Hongyuan
%A Niu, Yuhang
%A Liu, Ciyi
%A Wen, Yanlong
%A Yuan, Xiaojie
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2025
%V 13
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F xu-etal-2025-taxopro
%X Low-resource taxonomy completion aims to automatically insert new concepts into the existing taxonomy, in which only a few in-domain training samples are available. Recent studies have achieved considerable progress by incorporating prior knowledge from pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, these studies tend to overly rely on such knowledge and neglect the shareable knowledge across different taxonomies. In this paper, we propose TaxoPro, a plug-in LoRA-based cross-domain method, that captures shareable knowledge from the high- resource taxonomy to improve PLM-based low-resource taxonomy completion techniques. To prevent negative interference between domain-specific and domain-shared knowledge, TaxoPro decomposes cross- domain knowledge into domain-shared and domain-specific components, storing them using low-rank matrices (LoRA). Additionally, TaxoPro employs two auxiliary losses to regulate the flow of shareable knowledge. Experimental results demonstrate that TaxoPro improves PLM-based techniques, achieving state-of-the-art performance in completing low-resource taxonomies. Code is available at https://github.com/cyclexu/TaxoPro.
%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00755
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.27/
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00755
%P 557-576
Markdown (Informal)
[TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.27/) (Xu et al., TACL 2025)
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