Title
VN Network: Embedding Newly Emerging Entities with Virtual Neighbors
Abstract
Embedding entities and relations into continuous vector spaces has attracted a surge of interest in recent years. Most embedding methods assume that all test entities are available during training, which makes it time-consuming to retrain embeddings for newly emerging entities. To address this issue, recent works apply the graph neural network on the existing neighbors of the unseen entities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely Virtual Neighbor (VN) network, to address three key challenges. Firstly, to reduce the neighbor sparsity problem, we introduce the concept of the virtual neighbors inferred by rules. And we assign soft labels to these neighbors by solving a rule-constrained problem, rather than simply regarding them as unquestionably true. Secondly, many existing methods only use one-hop or two-hop neighbors for aggregation and ignore the distant information that may be helpful. Instead, we identify both logic and symmetric path rules to capture complex patterns. Finally, instead of one-time injection of rules, we employ an iterative learning scheme between the embedding method and virtual neighbor prediction to capture the interactions within. Experimental results on two knowledge graph completion tasks demonstrate that our VN network significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. Furthermore, results on Subject/Object-R show that our proposed VN network is highly robust to the neighbor sparsity problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3340531.3411865
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Virtual Event Ireland October, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6859-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongquan He100.68
Zhihan Wang200.34
Peng Zhang3126.86
Zhaopeng Tu451839.95
Zhaochun Ren53310.18