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Neural Concept Formation in Knowledge Graphs

22 Jun 2021AKBC 2021 10archive 2025-07-28

Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Antonio Vergari, Pasquale Minervini

In this work, we investigate how to learn novel concepts in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in a principled way, and how to effectively exploit them to produce more accurate neural link prediction models. Specifically, we show how concept membership relationships learned via unsupervised clustering of entities can be reified and used to augment a KG. In a thorough set of experiments, we confirm that neural link predictors trained on these augmented KGs, or in a joint Expectation-Maximization iterative scheme, can generalize better and produce more accurate predictions for infrequent relationships. For instance, our method yields relative improvements of up to 8.6% MRR on WN18RR for rare predicates, and up to 82% in small-data regimes, where the model has access to just a small subset of the training triples. Furthermore, our proposed models are able to learn meaningful concepts.

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