GMH: A General Multi-hop Reasoning Model for KG Completion

Yao Zhang, Hongru Liang, Adam Jatowt, Wenqiang Lei, Xin Wei, Ning Jiang, Zhenglu Yang


Abstract
Knowledge graphs are essential for numerous downstream natural language processing applications, but are typically incomplete with many facts missing. This results in research efforts on multi-hop reasoning task, which can be formulated as a search process and current models typically perform short distance reasoning. However, the long-distance reasoning is also vital with the ability to connect the superficially unrelated entities. To the best of our knowledge, there lacks a general framework that approaches multi-hop reasoning in mixed long-short distance reasoning scenarios. We argue that there are two key issues for a general multi-hop reasoning model: i) where to go, and ii) when to stop. Therefore, we propose a general model which resolves the issues with three modules: 1) the local-global knowledge module to estimate the possible paths, 2) the differentiated action dropout module to explore a diverse set of paths, and 3) the adaptive stopping search module to avoid over searching. The comprehensive results on three datasets demonstrate the superiority of our model with significant improvements against baselines in both short and long distance reasoning scenarios.
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2021.emnlp-main.276
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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3437–3446
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10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.276
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Yao Zhang, Hongru Liang, Adam Jatowt, Wenqiang Lei, Xin Wei, Ning Jiang, and Zhenglu Yang. 2021. GMH: A General Multi-hop Reasoning Model for KG Completion. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3437–3446, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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