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A Simple Approach to Case-Based Reasoning in Knowledge Bases

Computation and Language 2020-07-21 v2

Abstract

We present a surprisingly simple yet accurate approach to reasoning in knowledge graphs (KGs) that requires \emph{no training}, and is reminiscent of case-based reasoning in classical artificial intelligence (AI). Consider the task of finding a target entity given a source entity and a binary relation. Our non-parametric approach derives crisp logical rules for each query by finding multiple \textit{graph path patterns} that connect similar source entities through the given relation. Using our method, we obtain new state-of-the-art accuracy, outperforming all previous models, on NELL-995 and FB-122. We also demonstrate that our model is robust in low data settings, outperforming recently proposed meta-learning approaches

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@article{arxiv.2006.14198,
  title  = {A Simple Approach to Case-Based Reasoning in Knowledge Bases},
  author = {Rajarshi Das and Ameya Godbole and Shehzaad Dhuliawala and Manzil Zaheer and Andrew McCallum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14198},
  year   = {2020}
}
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