HittER: Hierarchical Transformers for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

This paper examines the challenging problem of learning representations of entities and relations in a complex multi-relational knowledge graph. We propose HittER, a Hierarchical Transformer model to jointly learn Entity-relation composition and Relational contextualization based on a source entity's neighborhood. Our proposed model consists of two different Transformer blocks: the bottom block extracts features of each entity-relation pair in the local neighborhood of the source entity and the top block aggregates the relational information from outputs of the bottom block. We further design a masked entity prediction task to balance information from the relational context and the source entity itself. Experimental results show that HittER achieves new state-of-the-art results on multiple link prediction datasets. We additionally propose a simple approach to integrate HittER into BERT and demonstrate its effectiveness on two Freebase factoid question answering datasets.

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 Ranked #1 on Link Prediction on FB15k-237 (Hit@10 metric)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Link Prediction FB15k-237 HittER MRR 0.373 # 7
Hits@3 0.409 # 6
Hit@10 0.558 # 1
Hit@1 0.279 # 1
Link Prediction WN18RR HittER MRR 0.503 # 6
Hits@10 0.584 # 18
Hits@3 0.516 # 11
Hits@1 0.462 # 7

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