Me
Yichi Zhang (张溢弛)
Zhejiang University
zhangyichi2022[at]zju.edu.cn

About

I am now a PhD student of computer science in Zhejiang University KG Lab, advised by Prof. Huajun Chen and Prof. Wen Zhang. I have published several papers at the top conferences such as SIGIR, ACL, ACM MM, SIGKDD, ICDE, AAAI, COLING, ISWC, IJCNN, NLPCC.

Interests

  • Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs (MMKG)
  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • Knowledge Graph Reasoning and Completion
  • Real-world Application for KG & LLMs

Education

Zhejiang University, 2025.02 - (now)
  • Ph.D Student in Computer Science and Technology
Zhejiang University, 2022.09 - 2025.01
  • Master in Computer Science and Technology
Zhejiang University, 2018.09 - 2022.06
  • Bachelor in Software Engineering

Research Summary

Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs
Large Language Models
Application

Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Representation & Reasoning & Completion: Represent the entities and relations in the vector spaces to conduct structured knowledge reasoning and new knowledge discovery. Our research mainly focuses on incorporate diverse modalities (image, text, numeric, audio, video) of the entities to enhance the representation learning and further benifit the MMKG reasoning and completion. Besides, we introduce more popular and effective representation learning techniques to solve the problems in this field and better achieve this goal:

  • Imbalanced Modality Distribution: Adversarial Training (AdaMF-MAT, NATIVE)
  • Fine-grained Modality Fusion: Modality Tokenization and Hierarchical Modeling (MyGO)
  • Modality Entanglement and Disentanglement: Mixture-of-Experts Networks (MoMoK)

Publications

Multiple Heads are Better than One: Mixture of Modality Knowledge Experts for Entity Representation Learning
TL;DR: Mixture-of-experts networks in MMKG for better entity representation learning.
ICLR 2025
MMKG Mixture-of-Experts Modality Disentanglement
Tokenization, Fusion, and Augmentation: Towards Fine-grained Multi-modal Entity Representation
TL;DR: Fine-grained modality information tokenization, fusion, and augmentation framework for MMKG completion.
AAAI 2025
MMKG Modality Tokenization Fine-grained Entity Modeling MyGO
K-ON: Stacking Knowledge On the Head Layer of Large Language Model
TL;DR: Multi-step entity prediction with LLMs.
AAAI 2025 (Oral)
MMKG LLM KG Completion
Making Large Language Models Perform Better in Knowledge Graph Completion
TL;DR: Incorporating structural information from KGs into LLMs to conduct structure-aware knowledge reasoning.
ACM MM 2024
Structural Adaption LLM KG Completion
Knowledgeable Preference Alignment for LLMs in Domain-specific Question Answering
TL;DR: Aligning LLMs with knowledgeable human preference with external KGs for domain-specific application
ACL 2024 (Findings)
Question Answering LLM Preference Alignment
NativE: Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion in the Wild
TL;DR: MMKG completion with diverse and imbalanced modality information (image, text, numeric, audio, video).
SIGIR 2024
MMKG Imbalanced Multi-modal Learning Adversarial Training
Unleashing the Power of Imbalanced Modality Information for Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion
TL;DR: A simple and effective adversarial training framework for general MMKG completion.
COLING 2024
MMKG Imbalanced Multi-modal Learning Adversarial Training
MACO: A Modality Adversarial and Contrastive Framework for Modality-missing Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion
TL;DR: Complete missing visual features in the given MMKG with a self-supervised manner to enhance MMKG completion.
NLPCC 2023
MMKG Imbalanced Multi-modal Learning GAN

Honors & Awards

  • 2024.11 National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
  • 2024.04 Chiang Chen Scholarship (蒋震奖学金)
  • 2023.04 Chiang Chen Scholarship (蒋震奖学金)
  • 2022.06 Outstanding Bachelor's Degree Graduates (优秀毕业生)
  • 2022.04 Distinguished Engineer Scholarship (卓越工程师奖学金)
  • 2020.12 College Scholarship from Higgs Technology (希格斯奖学金)
  • 2020.10 Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship (浙江省政府奖学金)
  • 2019.10/2020.10/2021.10 Second-class Scholarships in Zhejiang University (校二等奖学金)

Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2025, Neurips 2024, WWW 2024/2025, ARR 2023/2024/2025, ACM MM 2024, IJCNN 2024/2025.
  • Conference Volunteer: ISWC 2023, IJCKG 2022.
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE TAI, IEEE TKDE
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