LightEA: A Scalable, Robust, and Interpretable Entity Alignment Framework via Three-view Label Propagation

  • Xin Mao
  • , Wenting Wang
  • , Yuanbin Wu
  • , Man Lan

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Abstract

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to find equivalent entity pairs between KGs, which is the core step of bridging and integrating multi-source KGs. In this paper, we argue that existing GNN-based EA methods inherit the inborn defects from their neural network lineage: weak scalability and poor interpretability. Inspired by recent studies, we reinvent the Label Propagation algorithm to effectively run on KGs and propose a non-neural EA framework - LightEA, consisting of three efficient components: (i) Random Orthogonal Label Generation, (ii) Three-view Label Propagation, and (iii) Sparse Sinkhorn Iteration. According to the extensive experiments on public datasets, LightEA has impressive scalability, robustness, and interpretability. With a mere tenth of time consumption, LightEA achieves comparable results to state-of-the-art methods across all datasets and even surpasses them on many.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022
EditorsYoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages825-838
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429401
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022 - Hybrid, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 7 Dec 202211 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022

Conference

Conference2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityHybrid, Abu Dhabi
Period7/12/2211/12/22

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