arXiv Computation and Language

The Canonical Order Problem: When Large Language Models Are Unreliable Knowledge Bases for Multi-Valued Relations

The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) handle multi‑valued relations when used as knowledge bases. It identifies a "canonical order problem," where LLMs internally organize such relations according to a fixed ordering (e.g., alphabetical or chronological). The authors analyze the generation process in three phases—retrieval, internal sorting, and selection—and show that deviating from the internal canonical order reduces the reliability of LLMs in producing complete sets for multi‑valued relations.

arXiv AI
Sep 3

Direct Construction of Disambiguated Knowledge Bases from Large Language Models

The paper introduces GPTKB 2.0, a method for building disambiguated knowledge bases directly from large language models. It addresses the lack of native entity representation in LLMs by performing on‑the‑fly disambiguation of entities, relations, and classes, achieving a million‑scale KB with over 1 million disambiguated entities and 38.4 million triples. The authors analyze trade‑offs among accuracy, scale, and cost, and release the system at https://gptkb.org/.

By Yujia Hu, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski
arXiv AI
Sep 1

LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Completion Combining Discrete Structural Coding with Similar Entity Information

The paper introduces CoSC, a method for knowledge graph completion that merges discrete structural coding with information from similar entities. An LLM first produces a candidate ranking based on structural codes, then refines this ranking using data from entities with comparable structures. Experiments on FB15k-237 demonstrate that CoSC achieves higher MRR and Hits@10 than existing baselines while staying competitive on Hits@1.

By Jiaqi Wang, Dongying Lin, Yang Yang, Yinan Liu, Bin Wang, Xiaochun Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

CONSISTRE: A Unified Consistency-Aware Framework for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Large Language Models

CONSISTRE is a consistency‑aware framework for document‑level relation extraction that tackles contradictions in large language model predictions. It offers two tracks: an inference‑time track that refines black‑box LLM outputs through constraint‑aware prompting, verification, and self‑reflection, and a training‑time track that distills consistency knowledge into smaller open‑source models via supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning. Experiments on DocRED show both tracks outperform baselines, with the inference‑time track matching competitive F1 scores and the training‑time track narrowing the performance gap to proprietary LLMs while reducing inference cost.

By Mingxuan Sun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

CONSISTRE: A Unified Consistency-Aware Framework for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Large Language Models

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to extract relations among multiple entities across extended contexts while maintaining consistency across predicted triples. Although large language models (LLMs) show remarkable reasoning capabilities in information extraction, their predictions are typically generated independently for each candidate triple and may violate fundamental relational constraints such as transitivity, symmetry, and functional uniqueness, leading to contradictory and unreliable outputs.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

ConvergeWriter: Data-Driven Bottom-Up Article Construction

ConvergeWriter introduces a bottom‑up, data‑driven framework for long‑form document generation that first retrieves exhaustive knowledge from a source corpus and clusters it into distinct knowledge groups. These clusters then guide the creation of a hierarchical outline and the final text, ensuring the output is strictly grounded in the retrieved material and traceable to its sources. Experiments on 14B and 32B LLMs show that this approach matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art baselines, especially in scenarios requiring high factual fidelity and structural coherence.

By Binquan Ji, Jiaqi Wang, Ruiting Li, Xingchen Han, Yiyang Qi, Shichao Wang, Yifei Lu, Yuantao Han, Feiliang Ren