Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Transformer Framework for Multi-Modal Entity Alignment

Qian Li, Cheng Ji, Shu Guo, Zhaoji Liang, Lihong Wang, Jianxin Li


Abstract
Multi-Modal Entity Alignment (MMEA) is a critical task that aims to identify equivalent entity pairs across multi-modal knowledge graphs (MMKGs). However, this task faces challenges due to the presence of different types of information, including neighboring entities, multi-modal attributes, and entity types. Directly incorporating the above information (e.g., concatenation or attention) can lead to an unaligned information space. To address these challenges, we propose a novel MMEA transformer, called Meaformer, that hierarchically introduces neighbor features, multi-modal attributes, and entity types to enhance the alignment task. Taking advantage of the transformer’s ability to better integrate multiple information, we design a hierarchical modifiable self-attention block in a transformer encoder to preserve the unique semantics of different information. Furthermore, we design two entity-type prefix injection methods to redintegrate entity-type information using type prefixes, which help to restrict the global information of entities not present in the MMKGs.
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2023.findings-emnlp.70
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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987–999
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.70
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.70
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Qian Li, Cheng Ji, Shu Guo, Zhaoji Liang, Lihong Wang, and Jianxin Li. 2023. Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Transformer Framework for Multi-Modal Entity Alignment. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 987–999, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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