Adapting Neural Link Predictors for Complex Query Answering

Abstract

Answering complex queries on incomplete knowledge graphs is a challenging task where a model needs to answer complex logical queries in the presence of missing knowledge. Recently, Arakelyan et al. (2021); Minervini et al. (2022) showed that neural link predictors could also be used for answering complex queries: their Continuous Query Decomposition (CQD) method works by decomposing complex queries into atomic sub-queries, answers them using neural link predictors and aggregates their scores via t-norms for ranking the answers to each complex query. However, CQD does not handle negations and only uses the training signal from atomic training queries: neural link prediction scores are not calibrated to interact together via fuzzy logic t-norms during complex query answering. In this work, we propose to address this problem by training a parameter-efficient score adaptation model to re-calibrate neural link prediction scores: this new component is trained on complex queries by back-propagating through the complex query-answering process. Our method, CQDA, produces significantly more accurate results than current state-of-the-art methods, improving from 34.4 to 35.1 Mean Reciprocal Rank values averaged across all datasets and query types while using ≤35% of the available training query types. We further show that CQDA is data-efficient, achieving competitive results with only 1% of the training data, and robust in out-of-domain evaluations.

Publication
CoRR, abs/2301.12313
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