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Job Skill Extraction via LLM-Centric Multi-Module FrameworkGuojing Li, Zichuan Fu, Junyi Li et al.
Span-level skill extraction from job advertisements underpins candidate-job matching and labor-market analytics, yet generative large language models (LLMs) often yield malformed spans, boundary drift, and hallucinations, especially with long-tail terms and cross-domain shift. We present SRICL, an LLM-centric framework that combines semantic retrieval (SR), in-context learning (ICL), and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with a deterministic verifier. SR pulls in-domain annotated sentences and definitions from ESCO to form format-constrained prompts that stabilize boundaries and handle coordination. SFT aligns output behavior, while the verifier enforces pairing, non-overlap, and BIO legality with minimal retries. On six public span-labeled corpora of job-ad sentences across sectors and languages, SRICL achieves substantial STRICT-F1 improvements over GPT-3.5 prompting baselines and sharply reduces invalid tags and hallucinated spans, enabling dependable sentence-level deployment in low-resource, multi-domain settings.
Training-free LLM Merging for Multi-task LearningZichuan Fu, Xian Wu, Yejing Wang et al.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The release of open-source LLMs like LLaMA and Qwen has triggered the development of numerous fine-tuned models tailored for various tasks and languages. In this paper, we explore an important question: is it possible to combine these specialized models to create a unified model with multi-task capabilities. We introduces Hierarchical Iterative Merging (Hi-Merging), a training-free method for unifying different specialized LLMs into a single model. Specifically, Hi-Merging employs model-wise and layer-wise pruning and scaling, guided by contribution analysis, to mitigate parameter conflicts. Extensive experiments on multiple-choice and question-answering tasks in both Chinese and English validate Hi-Merging's ability for multi-task learning. The results demonstrate that Hi-Merging consistently outperforms existing merging techniques and surpasses the performance of models fine-tuned on combined datasets in most scenarios. Code is available at: https://github.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Lab/Hi-Merging.
A Multi-Expert Structural-Semantic Hybrid Framework for Unveiling Historical Patterns in Temporal Knowledge GraphsYimin Deng, Yuxia Wu, Yejing Wang et al.
Temporal knowledge graph reasoning aims to predict future events with knowledge of existing facts and plays a key role in various downstream tasks. Previous methods focused on either graph structure learning or semantic reasoning, failing to integrate dual reasoning perspectives to handle different prediction scenarios. Moreover, they lack the capability to capture the inherent differences between historical and non-historical events, which limits their generalization across different temporal contexts. To this end, we propose a Multi-Expert Structural-Semantic Hybrid (MESH) framework that employs three kinds of expert modules to integrate both structural and semantic information, guiding the reasoning process for different events. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.