Ensemble semi-supervised entity alignment via cycle-teaching

Kexuan Xin, Zequn Sun, Wen Hua, Bing Liu, Wei Hu, Jianfeng Qu, Xiaofang Zhou

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Abstract

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs. Although embedding-based entity alignment has recently achieved remarkable progress, training data insufficiency remains a critical challenge. Conventional semi-supervised methods also suffer from the incorrect entity alignment in newly proposed training data. To resolve these issues, we design an iterative cycle-teaching framework for semi-supervised entity alignment. The key idea is to train multiple entity alignment models (called aligners) simultaneously and let each aligner iteratively teach its successor the proposed new entity alignment. We propose a diversity-aware alignment selection method to choose reliable entity alignment for each aligner. We also design a conflict resolution mechanism to resolve the alignment conflict when combining the new alignment of an aligner and that from its teacher. Besides, considering the influence of cycle-teaching order, we elaborately design a strategy to arrange the optimal order that can maximize the overall performance of multiple aligners. The cycle-teaching process can break the limitations of each model's learning capability and reduce the noise in new training data, leading to improved performance. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed cycle-teaching framework, which significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art models when the training data is insufficient and the new entity alignment has much noise.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022
Subtitle of host publicationAAAI-22 Technical Tracks 4
Place of PublicationUnited States
PublisherAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Pages4281-4289
Number of pages9
Volume36(4)
ISBN (Electronic)9781577358763
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 22 Feb 20221 Mar 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
PublisherAAAI Press
Number4
Volume36
ISSN (Print)2159-5399
ISSN (Electronic)2374-3468

Conference

Conference36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period22/02/221/03/22

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