融合神经与符号方法,提升知识图谱对齐的准确性和鲁棒性。
Neuro-Symbolic Entity Alignment via Variational Inference
- 构建马尔可夫随机场联合建模实体对真值分数,结合规则约束。
- 在低资源场景下仅用1%种子对实现73.7%的命中率,提升7.6%。
- 支持长规则逻辑推理,适合需可解释性的知识融合任务。
实体对齐(EA)旨在通过识别等价实体对来合并两个知识图谱(KG)。现有方法分为符号与神经模型:符号模型虽精确但难以处理子结构异质性与稀疏性,神经模型虽有效却缺乏可解释性且无法处理不确定性。本文提出NeuSymEA,一种统一的神经-符号推理框架,结合两者优势,充分挖掘跨图谱结构模式以实现稳健的实体对齐。NeuSymEA在马尔可夫随机场中建模所有可能实体对的联合真值分数分布,由一组规则调控,并通过变分期望最大化算法优化。E步中,神经模型参数化真值分数分布并推断缺失对齐;M步中,基于观测与推断对齐更新规则权重,以处理不确定性。引入高效的符号推理引擎,支持长规则逻辑推导。NeuSymEA在DBP15K_ZH-EN上相较强基线提升7.6% hit@1,且在低资源设置下,仅用1%种子对即达到73.7% hit@1,表现稳健。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. Existing methods can be categorized into symbolic and neural models. Symbolic models, while precise, struggle with substructure heterogeneity and sparsity, whereas neural models, although effective, generally lack interpretability and cannot handle uncertainty. We propose NeuSymEA, a unified neuro-symbolic reasoning framework that combines the strengths of both methods to fully exploit the cross-KG structural pattern for robust entity alignment. NeuSymEA models the joint probability of all possible pairs' truth scores in a Markov random field, regulated by a set of rules, and optimizes it with the variational EM algorithm. In the E-step, a neural model parameterizes the truth score distributions and infers missing alignments. In the M-step, the rule weights are updated based on the observed and inferred alignments, handling uncertainty. We introduce an efficient symbolic inference engine driven by logic deduction, enabling reasoning with extended rule lengths. NeuSymEA achieves a significant 7.6\% hit@1 improvement on $\text{DBP15K}_{\text{ZH-EN}}$ compared with strong baselines and demonstrates robustness in low-resource settings, achieving 73.7\% hit@1 accuracy on $\text{DBP15K}_{\text{FR-EN}}$ with only 1\% pairs as seed alignments. Codes are released at https://github.com/chensyCN/NeuSymEA-NeurIPS25.
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