Jizhan Fang
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EM²Mem: Event-Centric Multimodal Memory for Large Language Models
Yijun Chen | Yaqi Zheng | Yanya Li | Boyi Xiao | Buqiang Xu | Shuofei Qiao | Jizhan Fang | Xinle Deng | Yunzhi Yao | Xuehai Wang | Liuxin Zhang | Hui Li | Huajun Chen | Shumin Deng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Yijun Chen | Yaqi Zheng | Yanya Li | Boyi Xiao | Buqiang Xu | Shuofei Qiao | Jizhan Fang | Xinle Deng | Yunzhi Yao | Xuehai Wang | Liuxin Zhang | Hui Li | Huajun Chen | Shumin Deng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Multimodal memory offers a scalable interface for long-video question answering, but existing methods often retrieve captions, frames, transcripts, summaries, or graph facts as isolated fragments. Although searchable, such fragments are not generation-ready: language models must reconstruct cross-modal and temporal alignments at inference time, when context is limited and attribution is difficult. We propose EM2Mem, an event-centric multimodal memory framework that binds heterogeneous evidence to event anchors during memory construction. Each event-indexed memory cell aligns multimodal records, temporal context, graph-linked relations, semantic facts, and provenance, enabling compact evidence readout over grounded multimodal events rather than modality-specific fragments. Across three long-video QA benchmarks, EM2Mem improves average accuracy over the strongest memory baseline by 2.0, 2.4, and 3.7 points, improves strict event-level Top-5 evidence recall by 7.0 points, and reduces per-query latency by 4.67× and total inference tokens by 63.66%.
TokenPilot: Cache-Efficient Context Management for LLM Agents
Buqiang Xu | Zirui Xue | Dianmou Chen | Chenyang Fu | Chiyu Wu | Caiying Huang | Chen Jiang | Jizhan Fang | Xinle Deng | Yijun Chen | Yunzhi Yao | Xuehai Wang | Jin Shang | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Buqiang Xu | Zirui Xue | Dianmou Chen | Chenyang Fu | Chiyu Wu | Caiying Huang | Chen Jiang | Jizhan Fang | Xinle Deng | Yijun Chen | Yunzhi Yao | Xuehai Wang | Jin Shang | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
As LLM agents are deployed in long-horizon sessions, context accumulation drives up inference costs. Existing approaches utilize text pruning or dynamic memory eviction to minimize token footprints; however, their unconstrained sequence mutations alter layouts, introducing prefix mismatches and cache invalidation. This reveals a critical trade-off between text sparsity and prompt cache continuity. To address this, we present **TokenPilot**, a dual-granularity context management framework. Globally, *Ingestion-Aware Compaction* acts as a framework harness to stabilize prompt prefixes and eliminate open-world environmental noise at the ingestion gate. Locally, *Lifecycle-Aware Eviction* monitors the ongoing residual utility of context segments, enforcing a conservative batch-turn schedule to offload content segments only when task relevance expires. Experiments on ‘PinchBench‘ and ‘Claw-Eval‘ under both isolated and continuous modes demonstrate that TokenPilot reduces costs by **61%** and **56%** in isolated mode, and **61%** and **87%** in continuous mode, while maintaining competitive performance compared to prior systems.
StructMem: Structured Memory for Long-Horizon Behavior in LLMs
Buqiang Xu | Yijun Chen | Jizhan Fang | Ruobin Zhong | Yunzhi Yao | Yuqi Zhu | Lun Du | Shumin Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Buqiang Xu | Yijun Chen | Jizhan Fang | Ruobin Zhong | Yunzhi Yao | Yuqi Zhu | Lun Du | Shumin Deng
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Long-term conversational agents need memory systems that capture relationships between events, not merely isolated facts, to support temporal reasoning and multi-hop question answering. Current approaches face a fundamental trade-off: flat memory is efficient but fails to model relational structure, while graph-based memory enables structured reasoning at the cost of expensive and fragile construction. To address these issues, we propose StructMem, a structure-enriched hierarchical memory framework that preserves event-level bindings and induces cross-event connections. By temporally anchoring dual perspectives and performing periodic semantic consolidation, StructMem improves temporal reasoning and multi-hop performance on LoCoMo, while substantially reducing token usage, API calls, and runtime compared to prior memory systems.
2025
CaKE: Circuit-aware Editing Enables Generalizable Knowledge Learners
Yunzhi Yao | Jizhan Fang | Jia-Chen Gu | Ningyu Zhang | Shumin Deng | Huajun Chen | Nanyun Peng
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yunzhi Yao | Jizhan Fang | Jia-Chen Gu | Ningyu Zhang | Shumin Deng | Huajun Chen | Nanyun Peng
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Knowledge Editing (KE) enables the modification of outdated or incorrect information in large language models (LLMs). While existing KE methods can update isolated facts, they often fail to generalize these updates to multi-hop reasoning tasks that rely on the modified knowledge. Through an analysis of reasoning circuits—the neural pathways LLMs use for knowledge-based inference, we find that current layer-localized KE approaches (e.g., MEMIT, WISE), which edit only single or a few model layers, inadequately integrate updated knowledge into these reasoning pathways. To address this limitation, we present CaKE (Circuit-aware Knowledge Editing), a novel method that enhances the effective integration of updated knowledge in LLMs. By only leveraging a few curated data samples guided by our circuit-based analysis, CaKE stimulates the model to develop appropriate reasoning circuits for newly incorporated knowledge. Experiments show that CaKE enables more accurate and consistent use of edited knowledge across related reasoning tasks, achieving an average improvement of 20% in multi-hop reasoning accuracy on the MQuAKE dataset while requiring less memory than existing KE methods.
OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking
Zekun Xi | Wenbiao Yin | Jizhan Fang | Jialong Wu | Runnan Fang | Yong Jiang | Pengjun Xie | Fei Huang | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zekun Xi | Wenbiao Yin | Jizhan Fang | Jialong Wu | Runnan Fang | Yong Jiang | Pengjun Xie | Fei Huang | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Machine writing with large language models often relies on retrieval-augmented generation. However, these approaches remain confined within the boundaries of the model’s predefined scope, limiting the generation of content with rich information. Specifically, vanilla-retrieved information tends to lack depth, novelty, and suffers from redundancy, which negatively impacts the quality of generated articles, leading to shallow, unoriginal, and repetitive outputs. To address these issues, we propose OmniThink, a slow-thinking machine writing framework that emulates the human-like process of iterative expansion and reflection. The core idea behind OmniThink is to simulate the cognitive behavior of learners as they slowly deepen their knowledge of the topics. Experimental results demonstrate that OmniThink improves the knowledge density of generated articles without compromising metrics such as coherence and depth. Human evaluations and expert feedback further highlight the potential of OmniThink to address real-world challenges in the generation of long-form articles.
CKnowEdit: A New Chinese Knowledge Editing Dataset for Linguistics, Facts, and Logic Error Correction in LLMs
Jizhan Fang | Tianhe Lu | Yunzhi Yao | Ziyan Jiang | Xin Xu | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jizhan Fang | Tianhe Lu | Yunzhi Yao | Ziyan Jiang | Xin Xu | Huajun Chen | Ningyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Chinese, as a linguistic system rich in depth and complexity, is characterized by distinctive elements such as ancient poetry, proverbs, idioms, and other cultural constructs. However, current Large Language Models (LLMs) face limitations in these specialized domains, highlighting the need for the development of comprehensive datasets that can assess, continuously update, and progressively improve these culturally-grounded linguistic competencies through targeted training optimizations. To address this gap, we introduce CKnowEdit, the first-ever Chinese knowledge editing dataset designed to correct linguistic, factual, and logical errors in LLMs. We collect seven types of knowledge from a wide range of sources, including classical texts, idioms, and content from Baidu Tieba Ruozhiba, taking into account the unique polyphony, antithesis, and logical structures inherent in the Chinese language. By analyzing this dataset, we highlight the challenges current LLMs face in mastering Chinese. Furthermore, our evaluation of state-of-the-art knowledge editing techniques reveals opportunities to advance the correction of Chinese knowledge.
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- Huajun Chen 5
- Yunzhi Yao 5
- Ningyu Zhang 4
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- Xuehai Wang 2
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- Lun Du 1
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- Chenyang Fu 1
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- Jin Shang 1
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