Shengzhong Liu

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2026

Matching enterprise technology demands with academic resources is critical for technology transfer, yet difficult because enterprise requests are often vague, constraint-sensitive, and expressed differently from scholarly outputs. Existing search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems may retrieve topically relevant results but often provide unsupported recommendations or insufficient evidence. We present TechMatch, an interactive system for evidence-constrained matching of enterprise demands to papers, scholars, patents, and projects. Its key novelty is a trustworthy workflow that combines demand clarification, structured constraint extraction, graph-augmented retrieval, evidence-aware reranking, and traceable report generation. Each recommendation is grounded in retrieved source evidence, reducing hallucinated rationales and exposing unresolved constraints and feasibility risks. To support efficient interaction, TechMatch uses hierarchical scholar representations, lightweight profile indexing, parallel reranking, and context-budgeted evidence selection. We construct a large-scale academic corpus covering four million research resources. On a public-source benchmark, TechMatch outperforms standard RAG by 9.9% on P@5, 10.1% on NDCG@5, and 9.3% on evidence support, while enabling users to inspect evidence and generate actionable technology-transfer reports.

2025

Extensive LLM applications demand efficient structured generations, particularly for LR(1) grammars, to produce outputs in specified formats (e.g., JSON). Existing methods primarily parse LR(1) grammars into a pushdown automaton (PDA), leading to runtime execution overhead for context-dependent token processing, especially inefficient under large inference batches.To address these issues, we propose Pre3 that exploits deterministic pushdown automata (DPDA) to optimize the constrained LLM decoding efficiency.First, by precomputing prefix-conditioned edges during the preprocessing, Pre3 enables ahead-of-time edge analysis and thus makes parallel transition processing possible.Futher, leveraging the prefix-conditioned edges, Pre3 introduces a novel approach that transforms LR(1) transition graphs into DPDA, eliminating the need for runtime path exploration and achieving edge transitions with minimal overhead.Pre3 can be seamlessly integrated into standard LLM inference frameworks, improving time per output token (TPOT) by up to 40% and throughput by up to 36% in our experiments. Our code is available at https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm.

2023

This paper studies speculative reasoning task on real-world knowledge graphs (KG) that contain both false negative issue (i.e., potential true facts being excluded) and false positive issue (i.e., unreliable or outdated facts being included). State-of-the-art methods fall short in the speculative reasoning ability, as they assume the correctness of a fact is solely determined by its presence in KG, making them vulnerable to false negative/positive issues. The new reasoning task is formulated as a noisy Positive-Unlabeled learning problem. We propose a variational framework, namely nPUGraph, that jointly estimates the correctness of both collected and uncollected facts (which we call label posterior) and updates model parameters during training. The label posterior estimation facilitates speculative reasoning from two perspectives. First, it improves the robustness of a label posterior-aware graph encoder against false positive links. Second, it identifies missing facts to provide high-quality grounds of reasoning. They are unified in a simple yet effective self-training procedure. Empirically, extensive experiments on three benchmark KG and one Twitter dataset with various degrees of false negative/positive cases demonstrate the effectiveness of nPUGraph.