Path-enhanced Pre-trained Language Model for Knowledge Graph Completion

Hao Wang, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu, Yuhang Tian, Pan Yang


Abstract
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved remarkable knowledge graph completion(KGC) success. However, most methods derive KGC results mainly from triple-level and text-described learning, which lack the capability to capture long-term relational and structural information. Moreover, the absence of a visible reasoning process leads to poor interpretability and credibility of the completions. In this paper, we propose a path-enhanced pre-trained language model-based knowledge graph completion method (PEKGC), which employs multi-view generation to infer missing facts in triple-level and path-level simultaneously to address lacking long-term relational information and interpretability issues. Furthermore, a neighbor selector module is proposed to filter neighbor triples to provide the adjacent structural information. Besides, we propose a fact-level re-evaluation and a heuristic fusion ranking strategy for candidate answers to fuse multi-view predictions. Extensive experiments on the benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model significantly improves the performance of the KGC task.
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2025.findings-emnlp.243
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
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10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.243
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Hao Wang, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu, Yuhang Tian, and Pan Yang. 2025. Path-enhanced Pre-trained Language Model for Knowledge Graph Completion. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 4528–4540, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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