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DRUM: End-To-End Differentiable Rule Mining On Knowledge Graphs

31 Oct 2019NeurIPS 2019 12arXiv:1911.00055archive 2025-07-28

Ali Sadeghian, Mohammadreza Armandpour, Patrick Ding, Daisy Zhe Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning probabilistic logical rules for inductive and interpretable link prediction. Despite the importance of inductive link prediction, most previous works focused on transductive link prediction and cannot manage previously unseen entities. Moreover, they are black-box models that are not easily explainable for humans. We propose DRUM, a scalable and differentiable approach for mining first-order logical rules from knowledge graphs which resolves these problems. We motivate our method by making a connection between learning confidence scores for each rule and low-rank tensor approximation. DRUM uses bidirectional RNNs to share useful information across the tasks of learning rules for different relations. We also empirically demonstrate the efficiency of DRUM over existing rule mining methods for inductive link prediction on a variety of benchmark datasets.

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Inductive Link PredictionInductive knowledge graph completionKnowledge GraphsLink PredictionPrediction

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Link Prediction FB15k-237 DRUM (T=3) Hits@1 0.255 #33 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction FB15k-237 DRUM (T=3) Hits@10 0.516 #33 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction FB15k-237 DRUM (T=3) Hits@3 0.378 #33 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction FB15k-237 DRUM (T=3) MRR 0.343 #33 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction WN18RR DRUM (T=3) Hits@1 0.425 #19 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction WN18RR DRUM (T=3) Hits@10 0.586 #19 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction WN18RR DRUM (T=3) Hits@3 0.513 #19 of 75 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction WN18RR DRUM (T=3) MRR 0.486 #19 of 75 Archive leaderboard report

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Symbolic rule learning

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