通过时间图谱挖掘事件间的动态关联,提升预测准确性。
EventConnector: Mining Social Event Relations through Temporal Graphs

- 构建事件时间图谱,捕捉事件的局部波动与前后关系。
- 融合因果信号,使检索结果在18个测试场景中平均降错6.87%。
- 适合做时间序列预测、信息检索的研究者和工程师参考。
基于时间动态理解并检索真实世界事件间的关联,是预测、信息检索和社会分析等时敏应用中的核心挑战。现有方法多依赖语义相似性或全局时间序列对齐,忽视了现实中事件间常见的瞬时性和方向性依赖。本文提出EventConnector框架,通过事件时间序列轨迹构建时间事件图,捕捉局部共波动与先行-滞后关系。进一步提出EC-Fusion机制,以图质量感知权重融合图基得分与互补的格兰杰因果信号。在Polymarket和Kalshi两个真实预测市场基准上,结合九种预测架构及三组随机种子评估,EC-Fusion在18个模型-数据组合中的17个中表现最佳,平均降低均方根误差6.87%(最高达10.86%),经霍姆-邦费罗尼校正后显著性p < 0.01。结果表明,基于时间锚定的图建模与因果信号融合,能有效捕捉语义相似性与传统对齐无法发现的隐含事件关系。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding and retrieving related real-world events based on their temporal dynamics is a fundamental challenge in time-sensitive applications such as forecasting, information retrieval, and social analysis. Existing methods often rely on semantic similarity or global time-series alignment, which overlook the transient and directional dependencies that frequently underlie real-world correlations. In this work, we introduce \textit{EventConnector}, a framework that constructs a temporal event graph capturing localized co-fluctuations and lead-lag relationships between events through their time-series trajectories. We further propose \textbf{EC-Fusion}, an adaptive retrieval mechanism that fuses EventConnector's graph-based scores with a complementary Granger-causal signal via a graph-quality-aware mixing weight. Across two real-world prediction market benchmarks (Polymarket and Kalshi) and nine forecasting architectures evaluated over three random seeds, EC-Fusion is the best non-oracle retrieval method on $17/18$ model--dataset cells, reducing RMSE by $6.87\%$ on average (up to $10.86\%$) over the strongest comparable retrieval baseline, with statistical significance at $p < 0.01$ after Holm--Bonferroni correction. These results highlight the effectiveness of temporally grounded graph modeling, augmented with causal-signal fusion, in capturing latent event relationships beyond what semantic similarity or traditional alignment techniques can offer.
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