Xuehai Wang
Author directory2026
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.
What Makes AI Research Replicable? Executable Knowledge Graphs as Scientific Knowledge Representations
Yujie Luo | Zhuoyun Yu | Xuehai Wang | Yuqi Zhu | Ningyu Zhang | Lanning Wei | Lun Du | Da Zheng | Huajun Chen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Yujie Luo | Zhuoyun Yu | Xuehai Wang | Yuqi Zhu | Ningyu Zhang | Lanning Wei | Lun Du | Da Zheng | Huajun Chen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Replicating AI research is a crucial yet challenging task for large language model (LLM) agents. Existing approaches often struggle to generate executable code, primarily due to insufficient background knowledge and the limitations of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods, which fail to capture latent technical details hidden in referenced papers. Furthermore, previous approaches tend to overlook valuable implementation-level code signals and lack structured knowledge representations that support multi-granular retrieval and reuse. To overcome these challenges, we propose Executable Knowledge Graphs (xKG), a pluggable, paper-centric knowledge base that automatically integrates code snippets and technical insights extracted from scientific literature. When integrated into three agent frameworks with two different LLMs, xKG shows substantial performance gains (10.9% with o3-mini) on PaperBench, demonstrating its effectiveness as a general and extensible solution for automated AI research replication.