Beyond Completion: A Foundation Model for General Knowledge Graph Reasoning

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Main Authors: Hua, Yin, Liu, Zhiqiang, Chen, Mingyang, Fang, Zheng, Wong, Chi Man, Li, Lingxiao, Vong, Chi Man, Chen, Huajun, Zhang, Wen
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author Hua, Yin
Liu, Zhiqiang
Chen, Mingyang
Fang, Zheng
Wong, Chi Man
Li, Lingxiao
Vong, Chi Man
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Wen
author_facet Hua, Yin
Liu, Zhiqiang
Chen, Mingyang
Fang, Zheng
Wong, Chi Man
Li, Lingxiao
Vong, Chi Man
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Wen
contents In natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), the successful application of foundation models across diverse tasks has demonstrated their remarkable potential. However, despite the rich structural and textual information embedded in knowledge graphs (KGs), existing research of foundation model for KG has primarily focused on their structural aspects, with most efforts restricted to in-KG tasks (e.g., knowledge graph completion, KGC). This limitation has hindered progress in addressing more challenging out-of-KG tasks. In this paper, we introduce MERRY, a foundation model for general knowledge graph reasoning, and investigate its performance across two task categories: in-KG reasoning tasks (e.g., KGC) and out-of-KG tasks (e.g., KG question answering, KGQA). We not only utilize the structural information, but also the textual information in KGs. Specifically, we propose a multi-perspective Conditional Message Passing (CMP) encoding architecture to bridge the gap between textual and structural modalities, enabling their seamless integration. Additionally, we introduce a dynamic residual fusion module to selectively retain relevant textual information and a flexible edge scoring mechanism to adapt to diverse downstream tasks. Comprehensive evaluations on 28 datasets demonstrate that MERRY outperforms existing baselines in most scenarios, showcasing strong reasoning capabilities within KGs and excellent generalization to out-of-KG tasks such as KGQA.
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spellingShingle Beyond Completion: A Foundation Model for General Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Hua, Yin
Liu, Zhiqiang
Chen, Mingyang
Fang, Zheng
Wong, Chi Man
Li, Lingxiao
Vong, Chi Man
Chen, Huajun
Zhang, Wen
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
In natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), the successful application of foundation models across diverse tasks has demonstrated their remarkable potential. However, despite the rich structural and textual information embedded in knowledge graphs (KGs), existing research of foundation model for KG has primarily focused on their structural aspects, with most efforts restricted to in-KG tasks (e.g., knowledge graph completion, KGC). This limitation has hindered progress in addressing more challenging out-of-KG tasks. In this paper, we introduce MERRY, a foundation model for general knowledge graph reasoning, and investigate its performance across two task categories: in-KG reasoning tasks (e.g., KGC) and out-of-KG tasks (e.g., KG question answering, KGQA). We not only utilize the structural information, but also the textual information in KGs. Specifically, we propose a multi-perspective Conditional Message Passing (CMP) encoding architecture to bridge the gap between textual and structural modalities, enabling their seamless integration. Additionally, we introduce a dynamic residual fusion module to selectively retain relevant textual information and a flexible edge scoring mechanism to adapt to diverse downstream tasks. Comprehensive evaluations on 28 datasets demonstrate that MERRY outperforms existing baselines in most scenarios, showcasing strong reasoning capabilities within KGs and excellent generalization to out-of-KG tasks such as KGQA.
title Beyond Completion: A Foundation Model for General Knowledge Graph Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21926