I am currently an assistant professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence at Beihang University in China.

I graduated from Department of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学自动化学院) with a bachelor’s degree and from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University (北京航空航天大学计算机学院) with a Ph.D. degree, advised by Professor Bo Li (李波). I have been the Research Intership in the Qwen Team of DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group. To promote the communication among the Chinese ML & NLP community, I am honored to serve as the Publicity Chair for the 2nd MLNLP Conference in 2023.

My research interests lie within the Knowledge Graph, Computer Vision, and Large Language Model. I have published 20+ papers at the top international AI conferences such as ACL, CVPR, AAAI, SIGIR, EMNLP, COLING, DASFAA and ICASSP.

I am committed to exploring joint data and knowledge-driven artificial intelligence techniques. I am currently leading various projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project titled “Commonsense-Guided Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Reasoning Approach”, as well as research-industry collaboration projects on “Cross-Temporal and Spatial Target Association in Complex Scenarios”. I also lead a project of Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Construction and its Application for Healthy Eating CookBook-KG .

I founded the WeChat public Platform Artificial Intelligence Meets Knowledge Graph (人工智能遇上知识图谱) with 3,000+ followers, where I share advanced technologies in the field of artificial intelligence especially knowledge graph.

Our group has positions for self-motivated PhD students, Master students, and visiting students, please feel free to email me at beihangngl@buaa.edu.cn.

🔥 News

  • 2025.02: 🎉 One paper is accepted to CVPR 2025 (Pose2ID)
  • 2025.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted to DASFAA 2025 Full Paper (DHNS)
  • 2024.12: 🎉 One paper is accepted to ICASSP 2025 (IFD)

📝 Publications

Knowledge Graph

DASFAA 2025
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Diffusion-based Hierarchical Negative Sampling for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion
Guanglin Niu, Xiaowei Zhang
The 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2025

  • DHNS is the first to leverage the diffusion model’s capabilities within the context of multi-modal knowledge graph for negative sampling.

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AAAI 2023
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Logic and Commonsense-Guided Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Guanglin Niu, Bo Li
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

  • This work LCGE is the first to introduce temporal rules into temporal knowledge graph completion models.
  • LCGE models each event from the perspectives of both the time-sensitive representation and the commonsense.
  • Our work is promoted by some forums, such as AI Time青年科学家论坛.

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ACL 2022
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CAKE: A Scalable Commonsense-Aware Framework For Multi-View Knowledge Graph Completion
Guanglin Niu, Bo Li, Yongfei Zhang, Shiliang Pu
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL), 2022

  • This work CAKE is the first to propose a scalable knowledge graph completion framework to predict entities in a joint commonsense and fact-driven fashion.
  • CAKE generates commonsense automatically for negative sampling and multi-view link prediction.
  • Our work is promoted by several media and forums, such as AI Time 视频 | AI Time 解读专知智源社区开放知识图谱AMiner.

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SIGIR 2021
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Relational Learning with Gated and Attentive Neighbor Aggregator for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion
Guanglin Niu, Yang Li, Chengguang Tang, Ruiying Geng, Jian Dai, Qiao Liu, Hao Wang, Jian Sun, Fei Huang, Luo Si
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2021

  • This approach GANA is the first to propose a gated and attentive neighbor aggregator to capture the most valuable contextual semantics of a relation.
  • GANA is one of the most representative models and always selected as the baseline on few-show knowledge graph completion tasks.
  • This work was conducted in collaboration with Qwen team. Our work is promoted by some media and forums, such as 专知.

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AAAI 2020
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Rule-Guided Compositional Representation Learning on Knowledge Graphs
Guanglin Niu, Yongfei Zhang, Bo Li, Peng Cui, Si Liu, Jingyang Li and Xiaowei Zhang
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020

  • This work RPJE is the first attempt to integrate logic rules with paths for KG embedding, balancing the explainability and the generalization.
  • Our work is promoted by several media and forums, such as 开放知识图谱雷锋网SAAIMLNLP. Particularly, RPJE was recognized as one of the representative studies of neuro-symbolic KG reasoning at (CCKS 2021).

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EMNLP 2020 Findings
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AutoETER: Automated Entity Type Representation with Relation-Aware Attention for Knowledge Graph Embedding
Guanglin Niu, Yongfei Zhang, Bo Li, Shiliang Pu and Jingyang Li
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP Findings), 2020

  • This work is the first to automatically learn the embeddings of entity types to enrich the general features of entities without explicit type information.
  • Our work is promoted by some media, such as AI TimeSFFAI专知.

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COLING 2022
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Perform like an Engine: A Closed-Loop Neural-Symbolic Learning Framework for Knowledge Graph Inference
Guanglin Niu, Bo Li, Yongfei Zhang, Shiliang Pu
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2022

  • EngineKG performs like a four-stroke engine in a closed-loop neural-symbolic learning framework with embedding-based rule learning and rule-enhanced knowledge graph embedding.
  • Our work is promoted by some media and forums, such as MLNLP Talk.

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🖼️ Computer Vision

CVPR 2025
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From Poses to Identity: Training-Free Person Re-Identification via Feature Centralization
Chao Yuan, Guiwei Zhang, Changxiao Ma, Tianyi Zhang, Guanglin Niu(Corresponding Author)
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

  • Pose2ID is a Training-Free Feature Centralization framework that can be directly applied to different ReID tasks and models, even an ImageNet pre-trained model without ReID training.
  • The developed Identity-Guided Pedestrian Generation paradigm leverages identity features to generate high-quality images of the same identity in different poses to achieve feature centralization.

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CVPR 2024
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CAMEL: CAusal Motion Enhancement tailored for Lifting Text-driven Video Editing
Guiwei Zhang, Tianyu Zhang, Guanglin Niu(Corresponding Author), Zichang Tan, Yalong Bai, Qing Yang
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

  • CAMEL develops a causal motion-enhanced attention mechanism to enhance the motion coherence of latent representations while preserving content generalization to creative textual scenarios.

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ICASSP 2025
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Identity-aware Feature Decoupling Learning for Clothing-change Person Re-identification
Haoxuan Xu, Bo Li, Guanglin Niu(Corresponding Author)
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025

  • IFD is the first to propose a dual-stream identity-attention model that effectively compels the network to focus comprehensively on the regions containing distinctive identity information.

📃Paper

Large Language Model

AAAI 2025
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Tablebench: A comprehensive and complex benchmark for table question answering
Xianjie Wu, Jian Yang, Linzheng Chai, Ge Zhang, Jiaheng Liu, Xinrun Du, Di Liang, Daixin Shu, Xianfu Cheng, Tianzhen Sun, Guanglin Niu, Tongliang Li, Zhoujun Li
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

  • TableBench is a human-annotated comprehensive and complex TableQA benchmark comprising 886 samples across 18 fields, designed to facilitate fact-checking, numerical reasoning, data analysis, and visualization tasks.
  • Our work is promoted by several media and forums, such as AINLP

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Arxiv 2024
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MdEval: Massively Multilingual Code Debugging
Shukai Liu, Linzheng Chai, Jian Yang, Jiajun Shi, He Zhu, Liran Wang, Ke Jin, Wei Zhang, Hualei Zhu, Shuyue Guo, Tao Sun, Jiaheng Liu, Yunlong Duan, Yu Hao, Liqun Yang, Guanglin Niu, Ge Zhang, Zhoujun Li

  • MdEval is the first massively multilingual debugging benchmark, which includes 3.6K test samples of 18 programming languages and covers the automated program repair (APR) task, the code review (CR) task, and the bug identification (BI) task.

📃Paper Hugging Face

Arxiv 2024
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FuzzCoder: Byte-level Fuzzing Test via Large Language Model
Liqun Yang, Jian Yang, Chaoren Wei, Guanglin Niu, Ge Zhang, Yunli Wang, et al

  • FuzzCoder formulates the fuzzing test as a sequenceto-sequence paradigm and then introduce the generation model to attack vulnerable positions by selecting proper mutation positions and strategies.

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🌐 Others

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2022.06 Outstanding Graduates, Beihang University
  • 2021.10 National First Prize, The Futurelab Cup of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Projects
  • 2014.07 First Prize of Freescale Smart Car Competition in North China

📖 Educations

  • 2017.08 - 2022.06, Ph.D., School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
  • 2015.09 - 2017.06, Master, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
  • 2011.09 - 2015.06, Bachelor, Department of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
  • 2008.09 - 2011.06, The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2023.03, Logic and Commonsense-Guided Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion, AI Time | [video]
  • 2022.10, Explainable Neural-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Reasoning, MLNLP学术Talk | [video]
  • 2022.04, A Joint Commonsense and Fact-Driven Knowledge Graph Reasoning Framework, AI Time | [video]
  • 2020.12, Automated Entity Type Representation Learning for Knowledge Graph Embedding, Student Forums on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (SFFAI) | [video]
  • 2019.12, Rule-Guided Compositional Representation Learning on Knowledge Graphs, Alibaba Group | [video]

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