arXiv:2604.19401cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

发现知识图谱持续学习中实体干扰导致误判,修正了评估方法

Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding

论文配图:Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding
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  • 提出新评估协议,考虑新增实体对旧知识的干扰
  • 实验显示忽略干扰会使性能评估高估达25%
  • 适合研究持续学习、知识图谱嵌入的学者参考

知识图谱嵌入(KGE)支持多种下游任务。实际中,知识图谱随新实体和事实不断更新,推动了持续知识图谱嵌入(CKGE)方法的发展。现有CKGE方法主要通过限制已有嵌入的变化来缓解灾难性遗忘(即旧任务性能下降)。但我们发现这一观点不完整:当引入新实体时,其嵌入可能干扰已学习的嵌入,导致模型用新实体错误替代正确答案。这种现象我们称为实体干扰,目前在主流CKGE评估中被忽视。因此,当前对灾难性遗忘的评估存在误导,导致CKGE方法性能被系统性高估。为此,我们提出一种修正后的CKGE评估协议,以应对实体干扰。在多个基准上的实验表明,忽略该效应可使性能评估高估达25%,尤其在实体增长显著的情况下更为明显。我们进一步分析不同CKGE方法与KGE模型受各类遗忘源的影响,并设计了一个专用于CKGE的灾难性遗忘度量指标。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Knowledge Graph Embeddings (KGEs) support a wide range of downstream tasks over Knowledge Graphs (KGs). In practice, KGs evolve as new entities and facts are added, motivating Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding (CKGE) methods that update embeddings over time. Current CKGE approaches address catastrophic forgetting (i.e., the performance degradation on previously learned tasks) primarily by limiting changes to existing embeddings. However, we show that this view is incomplete. When new entities are introduced, their embeddings can interfere with previously learned ones, causing the model to predict them in place of previously correct answers. This phenomenon, which we call entity interference, has been largely overlooked and is not accounted for in current CKGE evaluation protocols. As a result, the assessment of catastrophic forgetting becomes misleading, and CKGE methods performance is systematically overestimated. To address this issue, we introduce a corrected CKGE evaluation protocol that accounts for entity interference. Through experiments on multiple benchmarks, we show that ignoring this effect can lead to performance overestimation of up to 25%, particularly in scenarios with significant entity growth. We further analyze how different CKGE methods and KGE models are affected by the different sources of forgetting, and introduce a catastrophic forgetting metric tailored to CKGE.

知识图谱持续学习嵌入评估

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