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SQALER: Scaling Question Answering by Decoupling Multi-Hop and Logical Reasoning
Mattia Atzeni · Jasmina Bogojeska · Andreas Loukas

Wed Dec 08 04:30 PM -- 06:00 PM (PST) @

State-of-the-art approaches to reasoning and question answering over knowledge graphs (KGs) usually scale with the number of edges and can only be applied effectively on small instance-dependent subgraphs. In this paper, we address this issue by showing that multi-hop and more complex logical reasoning can be accomplished separately without losing expressive power. Motivated by this insight, we propose an approach to multi-hop reasoning that scales linearly with the number of relation types in the graph, which is usually significantly smaller than the number of edges or nodes. This produces a set of candidate solutions that can be provably refined to recover the solution to the original problem. Our experiments on knowledge-based question answering show that our approach solves the multi-hop MetaQA dataset, achieves a new state-of-the-art on the more challenging WebQuestionsSP, is orders of magnitude more scalable than competitive approaches, and can achieve compositional generalization out of the training distribution.

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Mattia Atzeni (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
Jasmina Bogojeska (International Business Machines)
Andreas Loukas (EPFL, MIT)

Researcher fascinated by graphs and machine learning.

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