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Entity alignment (EA) is to discover equivalent entities in knowledge graphs (KGs), which bridges heterogeneous sources of information and facilitates the integration of knowledge. Existing EA solutions mainly rely on structural information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Weixin Zeng , Xiang Zhao , Wei Wang , Jiuyang Tang , Zhen Tan

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs. Although embedding-based entity alignment has recently achieved remarkable progress, training data insufficiency remains a critical challenge. Conventional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Kexuan Xin , Zequn Sun , Wen Hua , Bing Liu , Wei Hu , Jianfeng Qu , Xiaofang Zhou

Entity resolution (ER) refers to the problem of matching records in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. While supervised machine learning (ML) approaches achieve the state-of-the-art results, they require a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Renzhi Wu , Sanya Chaba , Saurabh Sawlani , Xu Chu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Entity alignment (EA) is critical for knowledge graph (KG) fusion. Existing EA models lack transferability and are incapable of aligning unseen KGs without retraining. While using graph foundation models (GFMs) offer a solution, we find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuanning Cui , Zequn Sun , Wei Hu , Kexuan Xin , Zhangjie Fu

Entity alignment seeks to find entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Recent advancement in KG embedding impels the advent of embedding-based entity alignment, which encodes entities in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zequn Sun , Qingheng Zhang , Wei Hu , Chengming Wang , Muhao Chen , Farahnaz Akrami , Chengkai Li

Recent embedding-based methods have achieved great successes in exploiting entity alignment from knowledge graph (KG) embeddings of multiple modalities. In this paper, we study embedding-based entity alignment (EEA) from a perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Lingbing Guo , Zhuo Chen , Jiaoyan Chen , Yin Fang , Wen Zhang , Huajun Chen

Entity Resolution (ER) is a critical data cleaning task for identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity. In the era of Big Data, traditional batch ER is often infeasible due to volume and velocity constraints, necessitating…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Dimitrios Karapiperis , George Papadakis , Vassilios Verykios

Product matching aims to identify identical or similar products sold on different platforms. By building knowledge graphs (KGs), the product matching problem can be converted to the Entity Alignment (EA) task, which aims to discover the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wenlong Liu , Jiahua Pan , Xingyu Zhang , Xinxin Gong , Yang Ye , Xujin Zhao , Xin Wang , Kent Wu , Hua Xiang , Houmin Yan , Qingpeng Zhang

Meta-learning aims to learn general knowledge with diverse training tasks conducted from limited data, and then transfer it to new tasks. It is commonly believed that increasing task diversity will enhance the generalization ability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Xingzhe Su , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun , Hui Xiong

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. It remains a research hotspot due to its wide applicability across domains. Although recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaobo Zhang , Congqing He , Ying He , Jian Peng , Dajie Fu , Tien-Ping Tan

Entity alignment is a basic and vital technique in knowledge graph (KG) integration. Over the years, research on entity alignment has resided on the assumption that KGs are static, which neglects the nature of growth of real-world KGs. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yuxin Wang , Yuanning Cui , Wenqiang Liu , Zequn Sun , Yiqiao Jiang , Kexin Han , Wei Hu

Entity resolution (ER) presents unique challenges for evaluation methodology. While crowdsourcing platforms acquire ground truth, sound approaches to sampling must drive labelling efforts. In ER, extreme class imbalance between matching and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

The success of current Entity Alignment (EA) task depends largely on the supervision information provided by labeled data. Considering the cost of labeled data, most supervised methods are difficult to apply in practical scenarios.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weishan Cai , Wenjun Ma , Yuncheng Jiang

In the last few years, the interest in knowledge bases has grown exponentially in both the research community and the industry due to their essential role in AI applications. Entity alignment is an important task for enriching knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Rui Zhang , Bayu Distiawan Trisedy , Miao Li , Yong Jiang , Jianzhong Qi

Entity alignment(EA) is a crucial task for integrating cross-lingual and cross-domain knowledge graphs(KGs), which aims to discover entities referring to the same real-world object from different KGs. Most existing methods generate aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Zhishuo Zhang , Chengxiang Tan , Haihang Wang , Xueyan Zhao , Min Yang

We investigate the entity alignment (EA) problem with unlabeled dangling cases, meaning that partial entities have no counterparts in the other knowledge graph (KG), and this type of entity remains unlabeled. To address this challenge, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hang Yin , Liyao Xiang , Dong Ding , Yuheng He , Yihan Wu , Xinbing Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Semi-supervised entity alignment (EA) is a practical and challenging task because of the lack of adequate labeled mappings as training data. Most works address this problem by generating pseudo mappings for unlabeled entities. However, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Feng Xie , Xin Song , Xiang Zeng , Xuechen Zhao , Lei Tian , Bin Zhou , Yusong Tan

Entity alignment is crucial for merging knowledge across knowledge graphs, as it matches entities with identical semantics. The standard method matches these entities based on their embedding similarities using semi-supervised learning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei Ai , Yinghui Gao , Jianbin Li , Jiayi Du , Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Keqin Li

Representation Learning on Knowledge Graphs (KGs) is essential for downstream tasks. The dominant approach, KG Embedding (KGE), represents entities with independent vectors and faces the scalability challenge. Recent studies propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jiaang Li , Quan Wang , Yi Liu , Licheng Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Temporal Entity Alignment (TEA), which aims to identify equivalent entities across Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs), is crucial for integrating knowledge facts from multiple sources. However, existing TEA models often fail to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiayun Li , Wen Hua , Shiqi Fan , Fengmei Jin , Haiyang Jiang , Xue Li