Zeying Xie

Author directory

2026

Large Language Model (LLM) agents exhibit remarkable conversational and reasoning capabilities but remain constrained by limited context windows and the lack of persistent memory. Recent efforts address these limitations via external memory architectures, often employing graph-based representations, yet most adopt flat, entangled structures that intertwine semantics with topology, leading to redundant representations, unstructured retrieval, and degraded efficiency and accuracy. To resolve these issues, we propose LiCoMemory, an end-to-end agentic memory framework for real-time updating and retrieval, which introduces CogniGraph, a lightweight hierarchical graph that utilizes entities and relations as semantic indexing layers, and employs temporal and hierarchy-aware search with integrated reranking for adaptive and coherent knowledge retrieval. Experiments on long-term dialogue benchmarks, LoCoMo and LongMemEval, show that LiCoMemory not only outperforms established baselines in temporal reasoning, multi-session consistency, and retrieval efficiency, but also notably reduces update latency.
Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), also known as online or real-time ASR, transcribes speech incrementally while audio is being spoken and is critical for many industry applications. Despite the strong performance of modern offline ASR models, streaming deployment remains challenging because limited future context can cause early recognition errors to propagate across later chunks. We define the task of streaming ASR error correction and propose StreamCorrect, a modular framework that fine-tunes a lightweight error corrector from self-generated streaming ASR errors and integrates it with existing streaming ASR systems. To enable training without human annotation, StreamCorrect introduces a timestamp-free boundary recovery procedure based on Prefix-to-Reference Alignment for generating chunk-level correction data. Across multiple languages and ASR backbones, StreamCorrect achieves up to 39% relative character error rate (CER) reduction with minimal latency overhead. Error propagation analysis further shows increasing benefits over time, with up to 7.2% absolute CER reduction in later audio chunks. StreamCorrect bridges offline ASR models and streaming deployment through a lightweight correction plug-in while preserving the pretrained ASR component without additional tuning or distillation.

2019

Response selection plays an important role in fully automated dialogue systems. Given the dialogue context, the goal of response selection is to identify the best-matched next utterance (i.e., response) from multiple candidates. Despite the efforts of many previous useful models, this task remains challenging due to the huge semantic gap and also the large size of candidate set. To address these issues, we propose a Spatio-Temporal Matching network (STM) for response selection. In detail, soft alignment is first used to obtain the local relevance between the context and the response. And then, we construct spatio-temporal features by aggregating attention images in time dimension and make use of 3D convolution and pooling operations to extract matching information. Evaluation on two large-scale multi-turn response selection tasks has demonstrated that our proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art model. Particularly, visualization analysis shows that the spatio-temporal features enables matching information in segment pairs and time sequences, and have good interpretability for multi-turn text matching.