Jingfeng Liu
Author directory2026
ToToFilter: Topic- and Topology-Aware Noise Filtering Framework over Medical KGs for Evidence-Based Medical Q&A
Yufeng Wang | Weijie Chen | Chao Chen | Xingfeng Liu | Yizhe Yang | Zhihao Chen | Qiming He | Yubo Chen | Kang Liu | Xuefeng Wang | Xiangwen Liao | Jingfeng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yufeng Wang | Weijie Chen | Chao Chen | Xingfeng Liu | Yizhe Yang | Zhihao Chen | Qiming He | Yubo Chen | Kang Liu | Xuefeng Wang | Xiangwen Liao | Jingfeng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Evidence-Based Medical Question Answering (EB-MQA) aims to provide accurate and verifiable responses to support clinical decisions. To retrieve evidence from general medical knowledge graphs (KGs), existing knowledge augmentation methods use semantic similarity or dynamic sampling for entity matching and agentic expansion or subgraph scoring for path retrieval. These approaches can introduce entity-level noise from irrelevant or generic entities and path-level noise from redundant or spurious reasoning chains. We propose ToToFilter, a train-free topic- and topology-aware noise filtering framework with Topic-Aware Entity Localization for query-relevant entity anchoring and Topology-Aware Path Filtering for path selection based on semantic consistency, structural compactness, and information specificity. Across four MQA benchmarks, ToToFilter achieves average accuracy gains of 2.30 and 1.22 percentage points over DALK on Llama3.1-8B and Qwen2.5-7B, with maximum gains of 2.60 and 2.78 points. On PrimeKGQA, it improves answer recall and triple recall by up to 8.81 and 19.70 percentage points. Further analyses verify the effectiveness of the proposed two-level filtering framework.