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LiFTER: A Grounded Neuro-Symbolic Microscope for Continuous-Time Dynamic Graph Forecasting

arXiv:2608. 06765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous-time dynamic graph models predict future links by compressing past interactions into neural states.

arXiv AI
Sep 12

Breaking Predictions Is Not Enough: Specified-Foil Counterfactuals for Temporal Graphs

The paper introduces Specified-Foil Counterfactuals for temporal graphs, a method that seeks low‑cost past‑event interventions to make a user‑specified alternative outcome the top prediction. It uses trace‑guided search to compare completed executions of the original prediction with reconstructed incomplete executions of the foil, mapping differences to operations such as DELETE, INSERT, REWIRE, RELABEL, and SHIFT, and then verifies the foil through exact replay. Experiments on continuous‑time dynamic graphs and temporal knowledge graphs show that the approach retains most greedy successes while dramatically reducing predictor evaluations and achieving the specified foil in a majority of cases.

By Minwoo Yu, Young-guk Ha
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

BridgeMem: Causal Dyadic Transition Residuals for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting

BridgeMem is a new method for temporal knowledge graph forecasting that focuses on pair‑specific transition evidence, adding a residual correction to the log scores of a frozen full‑vocabulary forecaster. It retrieves and encodes prior events between a query actor and candidate, converting them into a likelihood‑ratio correction via a support‑adaptive empirical‑Bayes reader. Across five benchmarks, BridgeMem outperforms nine baselines from 2021–2026, improving filtered MRR and Hits@{1,3,10} metrics by up to 0.0216.

By Zeyan Li, Libing Chen, Shengda Zhuo, Yin Tang, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

GAttNHP: Group Attention Neural Hawkes Process for Extrapolation Reasoning in Temporal Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2607. 14733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) record how facts evolve over time, but forecasting future events on a TKG remains difficult for three reasons: (i) long-range temporal dependencies are hard to encode; (ii) events on different chains mutually excite or inhibit one another in ways that snapshot-level models cannot express; and (iii) inter-arrival times are heavy-tailed and statistically sparse, so deterministic time predictors are unreliable.

By Xiangni Tian, Kaixian Yu, Runpeng Dai, Niansheng Tang, Hongtu Zhu
arXiv AI
2d ago

On the Divergence of Accuracy and Mechanism Consistency in Time Series World Models

The paper introduces a formal framework and benchmark for time‑series world models (TSWMs) that separates state, actions, and exogenous inputs, and defines a new metric called mechanism consistency to evaluate whether model predictions move in the expected direction when actions change. Experiments on eight public datasets show that using a frozen latent prediction space and gated output fusion improves prediction accuracy, while prediction error and mechanism consistency often diverge, with the best‑performing models sometimes failing to exhibit consistent directional responses. Adding a directional supervision loss significantly boosts mechanism consistency without affecting mean‑absolute error, providing a practical recipe for building more reliable TSWMs.

By Haochen Zhang, Jiaheng Guo, Zhen Xu, Zachary Plotkin, Nicholas Konz, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Time is Not a Label: Continuous Phase Rotation for Temporal Knowledge Graphs and Agentic Memory

The paper introduces RoMem, a temporal knowledge graph module that treats time as continuous phase rotation rather than discrete labels. RoMem uses a Semantic Speed Gate to assign volatility scores to relations, allowing evolving facts to rotate quickly while persistent facts remain stable, thereby preventing the need for deletion or costly LLM calls. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on ICEWS05‑15 and improves temporal reasoning in agentic memory benchmarks such as MultiTQ, LoCoMo, and FinTMMBench.

By Weixian Waylon Li, Jiaxin Zhang, Xianan Jim Yang, Tiejun Ma, Yiwen Guo