SCoR: A Hierarchical Framework for Forecasting Relations Between Scientific Concepts
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The paper introduces a time‑aligned evolving concept graph framework that jointly models semantic and structural changes in scientific literature. By treating dated papers as shared update events, it reconstructs both semantic and structural states from the same publication history for each prediction time, and fuses these states at the pair level to forecast co‑occurrence, relation formation, and conditional relation type. Experiments on a large graph of 187,848 papers and 270,687 concepts show that refreshing context with graph updates boosts mean relation AUPRC by 16.6% and raises mean relation AUROC from 0.9290 to 0.9722.
Forecasting scientific relations can guide discovery by identifying promising connections before they emerge. Existing approaches often model concept semantics and graph structure separately or summar...
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Hakken is a domain‑agnostic system that predicts and explains future scientific discoveries by combining transformer‑based models trained on temporal knowledge graphs with large language model semantic knowledge. It identifies novel relationships between scientific concepts that extend beyond the deductive hull of existing knowledge and provides explanations to help scientists assess these predictions. In the biomedical domain, Hakken set a new benchmark for time‑aware multi‑label relation prediction, generated 1.5 million high‑confidence hypotheses about aging, and experimentally confirmed two predictions that revealed previously undocumented interactions relevant to drug discovery.
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