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Probabilistic Entity Representation Model for Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
Nurendra Choudhary · Nikhil Rao · Sumeet Katariya · Karthik Subbian · Chandan Reddy

Wed Dec 08 12:30 AM -- 02:00 AM (PST) @ Virtual
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Logical reasoning over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) is a fundamental technique that can provide an efficient querying mechanism over large and incomplete databases. Current approaches employ spatial geometries such as boxes to learn query representations that encompass the answer entities and model the logical operations of projection and intersection. However, their geometry is restrictive and leads to non-smooth strict boundaries, which further results in ambiguous answer entities. Furthermore, previous works propose transformation tricks to handle unions which results in non-closure and, thus, cannot be chained in a stream. In this paper, we propose a Probabilistic Entity Representation Model (PERM) to encode entities as a Multivariate Gaussian density with mean and covariance parameters to capture its semantic position and smooth decision boundary, respectively. Additionally, we also define the closed logical operations of projection, intersection, and union that can be aggregated using an end-to-end objective function. On the logical query reasoning problem, we demonstrate that the proposed PERM significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on various public benchmark KG datasets on standard evaluation metrics. We also evaluate PERM’s competence on a COVID-19 drug-repurposing case study and show that our proposed work is able to recommend drugs with substantially better F1 than current methods. Finally, we demonstrate the working of our PERM’s query answering process through a low-dimensional visualization of the Gaussian representations.

Keywords: Graph Learning

Author Information

Nurendra Choudhary (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

I work at Discovery Analytics Center under Dr. Chandan Reddy. My research area is Representation Learning in NLP. Check out my publications for more info.

Nikhil Rao (Amazon)
Sumeet Katariya (Amazon)
Karthik Subbian
Chandan Reddy (Virginia Tech)

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