Internalizing Negation-Gated Logical Rules into LLMs for Document-Level Relation Extraction

Hye-Yoon Baek, Sangjun Ji, Jimyeung Seo, Hae-Yoon Koo, Xiongnan Jin, Byungkook Oh


Abstract
Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) requires integrating scattered evidence to uncover challenging implicit relations. While recent LLM-based approaches leverage rich prior knowledge for relation prediction, they suffer from two limitations. Pipeline-based approaches cause irrecoverable candidate pruning, and the absence of explicit logical constraints leaves spurious over-prediction unsuppressed. To address this, we propose Gated Logical-rule INTernalization (GLINT), a novel DocRE framework that integrates an LLM with end-to-end inductive rule reasoning within a fully differentiable architecture. GLINT preserves per-pair signals across all entity pairs through a Fused Fact Tensor with Gumbel-softmax selection, and refines LLM predictions via an inductive rule reasoner with per-atom learnable negation gates. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show that GLINT outperforms existing LLM-based baselines.
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2026.findings-emnlp.2463
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hung-Yi Lee, Sunipa Dev, Jessy Li, Desmond Elliott
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.2463
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Hye-Yoon Baek, Sangjun Ji, Jimyeung Seo, Hae-Yoon Koo, Xiongnan Jin, and Byungkook Oh. 2026. Internalizing Negation-Gated Logical Rules into LLMs for Document-Level Relation Extraction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, pages 52994–53011, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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