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Answering Complex Queries in Knowledge Graphs with Bidirectional Sequence Encoders

Artificial Intelligence 2021-02-05 v4 Machine Learning

Abstract

Representation learning for knowledge graphs (KGs) has focused on the problem of answering simple link prediction queries. In this work we address the more ambitious challenge of predicting the answers of conjunctive queries with multiple missing entities. We propose Bi-Directional Query Embedding (BIQE), a method that embeds conjunctive queries with models based on bi-directional attention mechanisms. Contrary to prior work, bidirectional self-attention can capture interactions among all the elements of a query graph. We introduce a new dataset for predicting the answer of conjunctive query and conduct experiments that show BIQE significantly outperforming state of the art baselines.

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@article{arxiv.2004.02596,
  title  = {Answering Complex Queries in Knowledge Graphs with Bidirectional Sequence Encoders},
  author = {Bhushan Kotnis and Carolin Lawrence and Mathias Niepert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02596},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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