arXiv Machine Learning

Reification as a Transferable Vocabulary: Zero-Shot Link Prediction with Vanilla GNNs

The paper introduces a method that transforms knowledge graph facts into a fixed vocabulary representation, where each fact becomes a node linked to its subject, object, and relation type via six meta-relations. Using this representation, standard GNNs (e.g., GAT, GINE, GraphSAGE, R-GCN) trained on a single small graph can achieve zero‑shot link prediction on 40 inductive benchmarks, matching the performance of specialized foundation models like ULTRA. The approach also generalizes to relational databases, enabling foreign‑key prediction without cell values or schema text, and the authors provide code, checkpoints, and evaluation tools for all benchmarks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Neural Regression with Embeddings for Numerical Attribute Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

The paper introduces LitEm, a neural regression model that allows transductive knowledge graph embedding models to predict numerical attributes. LitEm achieves top or near‑top performance on most attributes across datasets such as FB15K‑237, YAGO15K, DB15K, and Mutagenesis. A co‑training framework further improves link prediction for bilinear models while enabling them to predict numerical attributes, demonstrating literal‑aware encoding of attribute information.

By Rupesh Sapkota, Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou, Moshood Yekini, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

The Post-GCN Decade Revisited: Curvature-Stratified Evaluation of Relational Learning

arXiv:2606. 06397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation practices in relational learning rely heavily on flat leaderboards that average performance across heterogeneous datasets, implicitly assuming a uniform underlying structure.

By Shuo Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Quanxin Wang, Bailin Wu, Bokui Wang, Shunyang Huang, Boyan Deng, Haonan Liu, Ruiyi Fang, Zhenxiang Xu, Boyu Wang, Zhao Kang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

MUGEN: Generating Unlearnable Graph Examples for Multiple Learning Tasks

MUGEN is a framework that generates unlearnable graph examples capable of protecting multiple downstream tasks—node classification, graph classification, and link prediction—simultaneously. It achieves this by perturbing a single clean dataset with a shared GNN encoder and task‑specific heads, guided by a Task‑Aligned Separability Objective (TASO) and a Type‑Adaptive Perturbation (TAP) that handles both discrete and continuous node attributes. Experiments on five benchmarks, four GNN backbones, and three learning paradigms show that MUGEN’s perturbations transfer across models and remain effective even under adversarial training and data augmentation.

By Ziyan Liu, Chengshuai Zhao, Huan Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Breaking the Scale Barrier: One-Shot Knowledge Transfer via Frequency Transform

arXiv:2603. 07523v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transferring knowledge by fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained networks has become a standard paradigm for downstream tasks, yet the knowledge of a pre-trained model is tightly coupled with monolithic architecture, which restricts flexible reuse across models of varying scales.

By Jianlu Shen, Fu Feng, Yucheng Xie, Jiaqi Lv, Xin Geng
arXiv AI
Sep 2

KGFR: A Foundation Retriever for Generalized Knowledge Graph Question Answering

KGFR introduces a Knowledge Graph Foundation Retriever that collaborates with large language models to enhance knowledge‑intensive question answering. By encoding relations with LLM‑generated descriptions and initializing entities from question roles, KGFR enables zero‑shot generalization to unseen knowledge graphs. Its Asymmetric Progressive Propagation technique efficiently handles large graphs, while a controllable reasoning loop allows the LLM to request candidate answers, supporting facts, and reasoning paths.

By Yuanning Cui, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Zhangjie Fu