Zhaoxuan Tan

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Zhaoxuan -> jow sh-yen.
Tan -> tæn.
You can call me Tan, which is easier to remember and pronounce.

Hi there, thanks for visiting my website! I'm a first-year CSE PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Meng Jiang and affiliated with the DM2 lab. Prior to that, I obtained my bachelor's degree in computer science and technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University (2019-2023) and had wonderful time conducting research at the LUD lab advised by Prof. Minnan Luo.

My research generally focuses on knowledge base, social network analysis, natural language processing, and graph neural networks. In 2022, I spent a summer at KEG @ THU to work with Prof. Yuxiao Dong.

Please feel free to drop me an Email for any form of communication or collaboration!☘️

Email:  ztan3 [at] nd [dot] edu  /  tanzx9 [at] gmail [dot] com

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🔥What's New
  • [2023.09] NLGraph was accepted to NeurIPS 2023 as a Spotlight. Huge congrats to Heng!👏
  • [2023.07] I graduated from XJTU and stepped down as the LUD lab director. Be the Light of the World!🎓
  • [2023.05] KALM was accepted to ACL 2023, kudos to coauthors!👏
  • [2023.04] MVSD is live on arxiv, welcome to check out our work!
  • [2023.04] BotMoE was accepted to SIGIR 2023. Huge congrats to Yuhan!
  • [2023.03] I will join the University of Notre Dame to work with Prof. Meng Jiang this fall. Thank you for seeing my potential and looking forward to the incoming PhD journey!🥳
  • [2023.02] BotPercent is live on arxiv, welcome to check out our work!
  • [2023.01] KRACL was accepted by WWW 2023, cheers!🍻
  • [2022.11] Our team CogDL-kgTransformer won the 4-th place in the OGB-LSC@NeurIPS2022 competition WikiKG90Mv2 track!
Research (* indicates equal contribution)

My primary research interest lies at the intersection of graph mining (especially knowledge graphs and social networks) and natural language processing, with a particular focus on computation for social good and LLM+Graph.

3DSP LMBot: Distilling Graph Knowledge into Language Model for Graph-less Deployment in Twitter Bot Detection
Zijian Cai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Zifeng Zhu, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
arXiv preprint 2023

We propose LMBot, which utilizes a language model with graph-aware knowledge distillation to act as a proxy for graph-less Twitter bot detection inference. This approach effectively resolves graph data dependency and sampling bias issues.

3DSP HOFA: Twitter Bot Detection with Homophily-Oriented Augmentation and Frequency Adaptive Attention
Sen Ye, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Ruijie He, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
arXiv preprint 2023

We identify the heterophilous disguise challenge in Twitter bot detection and proposed HOFA, a novel framework equipped with Homophily-Oriented Augmentation and Frequency Adaptive Attention to demystify the heterophilous disguise challenge.

3DSP Can Language Models Solve Graph Problems in Natural Language?
Heng Wang*, Shangbin Feng*, Tianxing He, Zhaoxuan Tan, Xiaochuang Han, Yulia Tsvetkov
Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)
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Are language models graph reasoners? We propose the NLGraph benchmark, a test bed for graph-based reasoning designed for language models in natural language. We find that LLMs are preliminary graph thinkers while the most advanced graph reasoning tasks remain an open research question.

3DSP KALM: Knowledge-Aware Integration of Local, Document, and Global Contexts for Long Document Understanding
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Yulia Tsvetkov
Proceedings of ACL 2023

We propose KALM, a Knowledge-Aware Language Model that jointly incorporates external local, document-level, and global context knowledge.

3DSP Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks
Heng Wang, Wenqian Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
arXiv preprint, 2023.

We curate a large-scale network-based spoiler detection dataset (LCS), a movie knowledge base (UKM), and propose MVSD, a Multi-View Spoiler Detection framework that takes into account external knowledge and user interaction networks.

3DSP BotMoE: Twitter Bot Detection with Community-Aware Mixtures of Modal-Specific Experts
Yuhan Liu, Zhaoxuan Tan, Heng Wang, Shangbin Feng, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
Proceedings of SIGIR 2023.

We propose community-aware mixture-of-experts to address two challenges in detecting advanced Twitter bots: manipulated features and diverse communities.

3DSP BotPercent: Estimating Twitter Bot Populations from Groups to Crowds
Zhaoxuan Tan*, Shangbin Feng*, Melanie Sclar, Herun Wan, Minnan Luo, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov
arXiv preprint, 2023.
demo / tweet

We introduce the concept of community-level Twitter bot detection and develope BotPercent, a multi-dataset, multi-model Twitter bot detection pipeline. Utilizing BotPercent, we investigate the presence of bots in various Twitter communities and discovered that bot distribution is heterogeneous in both space and time.

3DSP KRACL: Contrastive Learning with Graph Context Modeling for Sparse Knowledge Graph Completion
Zhaoxuan Tan, Zilong Chen, Shangbin Feng, Qingyue Zhang, Qinghua Zheng, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo
Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), 2023.
code / talk

We adopt contrastive learning and knowledge relational attention network to alleviate the widespread sparsity problem in knowledge graphs.

3DSP TwiBot-22: Towards Graph-Based Twitter Bot Detection
Shangbin Feng*, Zhaoxuan Tan*, Herun Wan*, Ningnan Wang*, Zilong Chen*, Binchi Zhang*, Qinghua Zheng, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Shujie Yang, Xinshun Feng, Qingyue Zhang, Hongrui Wang, Yuhan Liu, Yuyang Bai, Heng Wang, Zijian Cai, Yanbo Wang, Lijing Zheng, Zihan Ma, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo
Proceedings of NeurIPS, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2022.
website / GitHub / bibtex / poster

We present TwiBot-22, the largest graph-based Twitter bot detection benchmark to date, which provides diversified entities and relations in Twittersphere and has considerably better annotation quality.

3DSP PAR: Political Actor Representation Learning with Social Context and Expert Knowledge
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zilong Chen, Peisheng Yu, Qinghua Zheng, Xiaojun Chang, Minnan Luo
Proceedings of EMNLP 2022.
code / bibtex / poster

We propose to learn representations of political actors with social context and expert knowledge, while applying learned representations in computational political science.

3DSP Heterogeneity-Aware Twitter Bot Detection with Relational Graph Transformers
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Rui Li, Minnan Luo
Proceedings of AAAI 2022.
slides / code / bibtex

We propose the relational graph transformers GNN architecture to leverage the intrinsic relation heterogeneity and influence heterogeneity in Twitter network.

Education
University of Notre Dame
2023.08 - present

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Meng Jiang
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2019.08 - 2023.07

B.E. in Computer Science and Technology
GPA: 89.1 (+3) / 100.0 [top 5%]
Advisor: Prof. Minnan Luo
Service
  • Reviewer: ICLR 2024, TKDE 2023, TNNLS 2023, ICWSM 2024, NeurIPS 2023, NeurIPS dataset and benchmark track 2022, LoG 2022-2023.
  • Volunteer: EMNLP 2022 (virtual).
  • Director of the LUD lab (promote undergraduate research) 2022-2023.
Miscellaneous
  • I have the fortune to work with brilliant mentors, collaborators, and advisors during my undergraduate and I am truly grateful for their guidance and help. If you feel like I can be of some help to your research career, welcome to reach out!☕
  • My Chinese name is 谭兆轩 (Tan, Zhaoxuan).
  • I enjoy playing trumpet 🎺 and served as the principal trumpet player in my primary and high school band 🎼.
  • I am a big fan of Jules Verne, and especially fascinated with In Search of the Castaways, From the Earth to the Moon, and Five Weeks in a Balloon.
  • I also love jogging🏃 and playing table tennis🏓.

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