Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion with GNNs and Rules: An Analysis

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Main Authors: Anil, Akash, Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor, Ibañéz-García, Yazmín, Schockaert, Steven
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author Anil, Akash
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Ibañéz-García, Yazmín
Schockaert, Steven
author_facet Anil, Akash
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Ibañéz-García, Yazmín
Schockaert, Steven
contents The task of inductive knowledge graph completion requires models to learn inference patterns from a training graph, which can then be used to make predictions on a disjoint test graph. Rule-based methods seem like a natural fit for this task, but in practice they significantly underperform state-of-the-art methods based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), such as NBFNet. We hypothesise that the underperformance of rule-based methods is due to two factors: (i) implausible entities are not ranked at all and (ii) only the most informative path is taken into account when determining the confidence in a given link prediction answer. To analyse the impact of these factors, we study a number of variants of a rule-based approach, which are specifically aimed at addressing the aforementioned issues. We find that the resulting models can achieve a performance which is close to that of NBFNet. Crucially, the considered variants only use a small fraction of the evidence that NBFNet relies on, which means that they largely keep the interpretability advantage of rule-based methods. Moreover, we show that a further variant, which does look at the full KG, consistently outperforms NBFNet.
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spellingShingle Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion with GNNs and Rules: An Analysis
Anil, Akash
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Ibañéz-García, Yazmín
Schockaert, Steven
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
The task of inductive knowledge graph completion requires models to learn inference patterns from a training graph, which can then be used to make predictions on a disjoint test graph. Rule-based methods seem like a natural fit for this task, but in practice they significantly underperform state-of-the-art methods based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), such as NBFNet. We hypothesise that the underperformance of rule-based methods is due to two factors: (i) implausible entities are not ranked at all and (ii) only the most informative path is taken into account when determining the confidence in a given link prediction answer. To analyse the impact of these factors, we study a number of variants of a rule-based approach, which are specifically aimed at addressing the aforementioned issues. We find that the resulting models can achieve a performance which is close to that of NBFNet. Crucially, the considered variants only use a small fraction of the evidence that NBFNet relies on, which means that they largely keep the interpretability advantage of rule-based methods. Moreover, we show that a further variant, which does look at the full KG, consistently outperforms NBFNet.
title Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion with GNNs and Rules: An Analysis
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07942