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Temporal relation extraction (TRE) aims to grasp the evolution of events or actions, and thus shape the workflow of associated tasks, so it holds promise in helping understand task requests initiated by requesters in crowdsourcing systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jing Yang , Yu Zhao , Linyao Yang , Xiao Wang , Long Chen , Fei-Yue Wang

Linear temporal logic (LTL) offers a simplified way of specifying tasks for policy optimization that may otherwise be difficult to describe with scalar reward functions. However, the standard RL framework can be too myopic to find maximally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Cameron Voloshin , Abhinav Verma , Yisong Yue

In this paper, we propose Probabilistic discrete-time Projection Temporal Logic (PrPTL), which extends Projection Temporal Logic (PTL) with probability. To this end, some useful formulas are derived and some logic laws are given. Further,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xiaoxiao Yang

Temporal graph neural networks (TGNNs) have gained significant traction for solving real-world temporal graph tasks. However, their interpretability remains limited, as most TGNNs fail to identify which historical interactions most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hongjiang Chen , Xin Zheng , Pengfei Jiao , Huan Liu , Zhidong Zhao , Huaming Wu , Feng Xia , Shirui Pan

Deep learning often struggles when training and test data distributions differ. Traditional domain generalization (DG) tackles this by including data from multiple source domains, which is impractical due to expensive data collection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lihua Zhou , Mao Ye , Nianxin Li , Shuaifeng Li , Jinlin Wu , Xiatian Zhu , Lei Deng , Hongbin Liu , Jiebo Luo , Zhen Lei

Temporal relation classification is a pair-wise task for identifying the relation of a temporal link (TLINK) between two mentions, i.e. event, time, and document creation time (DCT). It leads to two crucial limits: 1) Two TLINKs involving a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Fei Cheng , Masayuki Asahara , Ichiro Kobayashi , Sadao Kurohashi

In this paper we explore representations of temporal knowledge based upon the formalism of Causal Probabilistic Networks (CPNs). Two different ?continuous-time? representations are proposed. In the first, the CPN includes variables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Carlo Berzuini , Riccardo Bellazzi , Silvana Quaglini

Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) have been developed and used in many different areas. Reasoning on TKGs that predicts potential facts (events) in the future brings great challenges to existing models. When facing a prediction task, human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Saiping Guan , Wei Li , Jiafeng Guo , Yuanzhuo Wang , Xueqi Cheng

Few-shot relational learning for static knowledge graphs (KGs) has drawn greater interest in recent years, while few-shot learning for temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) has hardly been studied. Compared to KGs, TKGs contain rich temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zifeng Ding , Bailan He , Yunpu Ma , Zhen Han , Volker Tresp

The growing availability of high-resolution, long-term time series data has highlighted the need for methods capable of capturing both local and global patterns. To address this, we introduce the Probabilistic Visibility Graph (PVG), a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Roberto Sotero , Jose Sanchez-Bornot

Temporal reasoning is a crucial NLP task, providing a nuanced understanding of time-sensitive contexts within textual data. Although recent advancements in LLMs have demonstrated their potential in temporal reasoning, the predominant focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chenhan Yuan , Qianqian Xie , Jimin Huang , Sophia Ananiadou

With the growing use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), training large language models (LLMs) for context-sensitive reasoning and faithfulness is increasingly important. Existing RAG-oriented reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhehao Tan , Yihan Jiao , Dan Yang , Junjie Wang , Duolin Sun , Jie Feng , Xidong Wang , Lei Liu , Yue Shen , Jian Wang , Jinjie Gu

System behavior is often based on causal relations between certain events (e.g. If event1, then event2). Consequently, those causal relations are also textually embedded in requirements. We want to extract this causal knowledge and utilize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jannik Fischbach , Benedikt Hauptmann , Lukas Konwitschny , Dominik Spies , Andreas Vogelsang

Document-level relation extraction aims to discover relations between entities across a whole document. How to build the dependency of entities from different sentences in a document remains to be a great challenge. Current approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaxin Pan , Min Peng , Yiyan Zhang

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) encode evidence-based decision logic that clinicians apply by evaluating patient variables, conditional criteria, and recommendation rules. However, existing methods often use CPGs as free-text training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhao Shen , Lang Cao , Simo Du , Yuqing Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Hao Peng , Yue Guo

Understanding causal relations between temporal variables is a central challenge in time series analysis, particularly when the full causal structure is unknown. Even when the full causal structure cannot be fully specified, experts often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Timothée Loranchet , Charles K. Assaad

Recent advances in medical large language models have explored Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) to enhance reasoning. However, standard TTRL often relies on majority voting (MV) as a heuristic supervision signal, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kailong Fan , Anqi Pu , Yichen Wu , Wanhua Li , Yicong Li , Hanspeter Pfister , Huafeng Liu , Xiang Li , Quanzheng Li , Ning Guo

Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) representation learning embeds entities and event types into a continuous low-dimensional vector space by integrating the temporal information, which is essential for downstream tasks, e.g., event prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xing Tang , Ling Chen

Clinical decision support requires not only correct answers but also clinically valid reasoning. We propose Differential Reasoning Learning (DRL), a framework that improves clinical agents by learning from reasoning discrepancies. From…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jinsong Liu , Yuhang Jiang , Ramayya Krishnan , Rema Padman , Yiye Zhang , Jiang Bian

The biological literature is rich with sentences that describe causal relations. Methods that automatically extract such sentences can help biologists to synthesize the literature and even discover latent relations that had not been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Justin Wood , Nicholas J. Matiasz , Alcino J. Silva , William Hsu , Alexej Abyzov , Wei Wang