# Entity_Alignment_Papers **Repository Path**: zenglanllan/Entity_Alignment_Papers ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: Entity_Alignment_Papers - **Description**: Must-read papers on entity alignment published in recent years - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Not specified - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 1 - **Created**: 2020-12-10 - **Last Updated**: 2022-10-27 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # Entity Alignment Papers This is a repo listing some must-read papers on Entity Alignment published in recent years, contributed by [Chengjiang Li](https://github.com/iamlockelightning) and [Zequn Sun](https://github.com/sunzequn). ## Conference papers (methods): 1. **JE**: **"A Joint Embedding Method for Entity Alignment of Knowledge Bases".** *Yanchao Hao, Yuanzhe Zhang, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao.* (CCKS 2016) \[[paper](http://ir.ia.ac.cn/bitstream/173211/20186/1/A%20Joint%20Embedding%20Method%20for%20Entity%20Alignment%20of%20Knowledge%20Bases.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **MTransE**: **"Multilingual Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Cross-lingual Knowledge Alignment".** *Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Mohan Yang, Carlo Zaniolo.* (IJCAI 2017) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0209.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/muhaochen/MTransE)\] 1. **JAPE**: **"Cross-Lingual Entity Alignment via Joint Attribute-Preserving Embedding".** *Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Chengkai Li.* (ISWC 2017) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05045.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/JAPE)\] 1. **IPTransE**: **"Iterative Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embeddings".** *Hao Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.* (IJCAI 2017) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0595.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/IEAJKE)\] 1. **BootEA**: **"Bootstrapping Entity Alignment with Knowledge Graph Embedding".** *Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Qingheng Zhang, Yuzhong Qu.* (IJCAI 2018) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0611.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/BootEA)\] 1. **KDCoE**: **"Co-training Embeddings of Knowledge Graphs and Entity Descriptions for Cross-lingual Entity Alignment".** *Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Kai-Wei Chang, Steven Skiena, Carlo Zaniolo.* (IJCAI 2018) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0556.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/muhaochen/MTransE-tf)\] 1. **NTAM**: **"Non-translational Alignment for Multi-relational Networks".** *Shengnan Li, Xin Li, Rui Ye, Mingzhong Wang, Haiping Su, Yingzi Ou.* (IJCAI 2018) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0581.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **"LinkNBed: Multi-Graph Representation Learning with Entity Linkage"."" *Rakshit Trivedi, Bunyamin Sisman, Jun Ma, Christos Faloutsos, Hongyuan Zha, Xin Luna Dong* (ACL 2018) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1024.pdf)\] 1. **GCN-Align**: **"Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment via Graph Convolutional Networks".** *Zhichun Wang, Qingsong Lv, Xiaohan Lan, Yu Zhang.* (EMNLP 2018) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1032)\]\[[code](https://github.com/1049451037/GCN-Align)\] 1. **AttrE**: **"Entity Alignment between Knowledge Graphs Using Attribute Embeddings".** *Bayu D. Trsedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang.* (AAAI 2019) \[[paper](http://www.ruizhang.info/publications/AAAI2019-Entity%20Alignment%20between%20Knowledge%20Graphs%20Using%20Attribute%20Embeddings.pdf)\]\[[code](https://bitbucket.org/bayudt/kba/src)\] 1. **SEA**: **"Semi-Supervised Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Embedding with Awareness of Degree Difference".** *Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Robert Hoehndorf, Xiangliang Zhang.* (WWW 2019) \[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3313646)\]\[code\] 1. **RSN4EA**: **"Learning to Exploit Long-term Relational Dependencies in Knowledge Graphs".** *Lingbing Guo, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu.* (ICML 2019) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04914.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/RSN)\] 1. **MuGNN**: **"Multi-Channel Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment".** *Yixin Cao, Zhiyuan Liu, Chengjiang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua.* (ACL 2019) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1140)\]\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/MuGNN)\] 1. **GMNN**: **"Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment via Graph Matching Neural Network".** *Kun Xu, Liwei Wang, Mo Yu, Yansong Feng, Yan Song, Zhiguo Wang, Dong Yu.* (ACL 2019) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.11605.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/syxu828/Crosslingula-KG-Matching)\] 1. **MultiKE**: **"Multi-view Knowledge Graph Embedding for Entity Alignment".** *Qingheng Zhang, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yuzhong Qu.* (IJCAI 2019) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0754.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/MultiKE)\] 1. **RDGCN**: **"Relation-Aware Entity Alignment for Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs".** *Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Rui Yan, Dongyan Zhao.* (IJCAI 2019) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0733.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/RDGCN)\] 1. **OTEA**: **"Improving Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Optimal Transport".** *Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang.* (IJCAI 2019) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0448.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **NAEA**: **"Neighborhood-Aware Attentional Representation for Multilingual Knowledge Graphs".** *Qiannan Zhu, Xiaofei Zhou, Jia Wu, Jianlong Tan, Li Guo.* (IJCAI 2019) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0269.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **AVR-GCN**: **"A Vectorized Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-Relational Network Alignment".** *Rui Ye, Xin Li, Yujie Fang, Hongyu Zang, Mingzhong Wang.* (IJCAI 2019) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019//0574.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **TransEdge**: **"TransEdge: Translating Relation-Contextualized Embeddings for Knowledge Graphs".** *Zequn Sun, Jiacheng Huang, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yuzhong Qu.* (ISWC 2019) \[[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30793-6_35)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/TransEdge)\] 1. **KECG**: **"Semi-supervised Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embedding Model and Cross-graph Model".** *Chengjiang Li, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Jiaxin Shi, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua.* (EMNLP 2019) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1274.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/THU-KEG/KECG)\] 1. **HGCN**: **"Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment".** *Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao.* (EMNLP 2019) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1023.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/HGCN-JE-JR)\] 1. **MMEA**: **"Modeling Multi-mapping relations for Precise Cross-lingual Entity Alignment".** *Xiaofei Shi, Yanghua Xiao.* (EMNLP 2019) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1075.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **HMAN**: **"Aligning Cross-lingual Entities with Multi-Aspect Information".** *Hsiu-Wei Yang, Yanyan Zou, Peng Shi, Wei Lu, Jimmy Lin, Xu Sun.* (EMNLP 2019) \[[paper](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/YangHW_etal_EMNLP2019.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/h324yang/HMAN)\] 1. **AKE**: **"Guiding Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Adversarial Knowledge Embedding".** *Xixun Lin, Hong Yang, Jia Wu, Chuan Zhou, Bin Wang.* (ICDM 2019) \[[paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8970718/)\]\[[code](https://github.com/IIEdm/AKE)\] 1. **MRAEA**: **"MRAEA: An Efficient and Robust Cross-lingual Entity Alignment Approach via Meta Relation Aware Representation".** *Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Huimin Xu, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu.* (WSDM 2020) \[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3336191.3371804)\]\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/MRAEA)\] 1. **AliNet**: **"Knowledge Graph Alignment Network with Gated Multi-hop Neighborhood Aggregation".** *Zequn Sun, Chengming Wang, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Jian Dai, Wei Zhang, Yuzhong Qu.* (AAAI 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08936.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/AliNet)\] 1. **"Coordinated Reasoning for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment".** *Kun Xu, Linfeng Song, Yansong Feng, Yan Song, Dong Yu.* (AAAI 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08728.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **COTSAE**: **"COTSAE: CO-Training of Structure and Attribute Embeddings for Entity Alignment".** *Kai Yang, Shaoqin Liu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang, Bing Xie.* (AAAI 2020) \[[paper](http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/OM/articles/Yang_AAAI20.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/ykpku/COTSA)\] 1. **CEAFF**: **"Collective Embedding-based Entity Alignment via Adaptive Features".** *Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Jiuyang Tang, Xuemin Lin.* (ICDE 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.08404.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **"Deep Graph Matching Consensus".** *Matthias Fey, Jan E. Lenssen, Christopher Morris, Jonathan Masci, Nils M. Kriege.* (ICLR 2020) \[[paper](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HyeJf1HKvS)\]\[code\] 1. **CG-MuAlign**: **"Collective Multi-type Entity Alignment Between Knowledge Graphs".** *Qi Zhu, Hao Wei, Bunyamin Sisman, Da Zheng, Christos Faloutsos, Xin Luna Dong, Jiawei Han.* (WWW 2020) \[[paper](https://assets.amazon.science/ff/7a/b96282984a0fbe5e31a8fcf68d17/scipub-1202.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/GentleZhu/CG-MuAlign)\] 1. **JarKA**: **"JarKA: Modeling Attribute Interactions for Cross-lingual Knowledge Alignment".** *Bo Chen, Jing Zhang, Xiaobin Tang, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li.* (PAKDD 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.13105.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/BoChen-Daniel/PAKDD-20-JarKA)\] 1. **NMN**: **"Neighborhood Matching Network for Entity Alignment".** *Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao.* (ACL 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05607.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/NMN)\] 1. **BERT-INT**: **"BERT-INT: A BERT-based Interaction Model For Knowledge Graph Alignment".** *Xiaobin Tang, Jing Zhang, Bo Chen, Yang Yang, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li.* (IJCAI 2020) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/0439.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/kosugi11037/bert-int)\] 1. **SSP**: **"Global Structure and Local Semantics-Preserved Embeddings for Entity Alignment".** *Hao Nie, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Chi Man Wong, Qiang Chen, Suhui Wu, Wei Zhang.* (IJCAI 2020) \[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/0506.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **DAT**: **"Degree-Aware Alignment for Entities in Tail".** *Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Wei Wang, Jiuyang Tang, Zhen Tan.* (SIGIR 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12132.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/DexterZeng/DAT)\] 1. **RREA**: **"Relational Reflection Entity Alignment".** *Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Huimin Xu, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (CIKM 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07962.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/RREA)\] 1. **REA**: **"REA: Robust Cross-lingual Entity Alignment Between Knowledge Graphs".** *Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Guoxian Yu, Xiangliang Zhang.* (KDD 2020) \[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3394486.3403268)\]\[[code](https://github.com/scpei/REA)\] 1. **HyperKA**: **"Knowledge Association with Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings".** *Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Jian Dai, Wei Zhang.* (EMNLP 2020) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.460.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/HyperKA)\] 1. **AttrGNN**: **"Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment".** *Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat-Seng Chua.* (EMNLP 2020) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.515.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/explore-and-evaluate)\] 1. **EPEA**: **"Knowledge Graph Alignment with Entity-Pair Embedding".** *Zhichun Wang, Jinjian Yang, Xiaoju Ye.* (EMNLP 2020) \[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.130.pdf)\] 1. **"Learning Short-Term Differences and Long-Term Dependencies for Entity Alignment".** *Jia Chen, Zhixu Li, Pengpeng Zhao, An Liu, Lei Zhao, Zhigang Chen, Xiangliang Zhang.* (ISWC 2020) \[[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-62419-4_6)\] ## Surveys and Benchmarking Studies 1. **OpenEA**: **"A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs".** *Zequn Sun, Qingheng Zhang, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Muhao Chen, Farahnaz Akrami, Chengkai Li.* PVLDB, vol. 13. ACM 2020 \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.07743.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/OpenEA)\] 1. **"An Experimental Study of State-of-the-Art Entity Alignment Approaches".** *Xiang Zhao, Weixin Zeng, Jiuyang Tang, Wei Wang, Fabian Suchanek.* TKDE, 2020 \[[paper](https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2020.3018741)\] 1. **"An Industry Evaluation of Embedding-based Entity Alignment".** *Ziheng Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Xi Chen, Hualuo Liu, Yuejia Xiang, Bo Liu, Yefeng Zheng.* (COLING 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11522.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/ZihengZZH/industry-eval-EA)\] ## Preprints This section contains promising recent preprints. 1. **KAGAN**: **"Weakly-supervised Knowledge Graph Alignment with Adversarial Learning".** *Meng Qu, Jian Tang, Yoshua Bengio.* (arXiv 2019) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03179.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **"Active Learning for Entity Alignment".** *Max Berrendorf, Evgeniy Faerman, Volker Tresp.* (arXiv 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08943)\] 1. **JEANS**: **"Cross-lingual Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs with Incidental Supervision from Free Text".** *Muhao Chen, Weijia Shi, Ben Zhou, Dan Roth.* (arXiv 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00171.pdf)\]\[code\] 1. **"Generalized Multi-Relational Graph Convolution Network".** *Donghan Yu, Yiming Yang, Ruohong Zhang, Yuexin Wu.* (arXiv 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07331.pdf)\] 1. **"Visual Pivoting for (Unsupervised) Entity Alignment".** *Fangyu Liu, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Nigel Collier.* (arXiv 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13603.pdf)\] 1. **"A Critical Assessment of State-of-the-Art in Entity Alignment".** *Max Berrendorf, Ludwig Wacker, Evgeniy Faerman.* (arXiv 2020) \[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.16314.pdf)\]\[[code](https://github.com/mberr/ea-sota-comparison)\] ## Tools 1. **OpenEA** \[[repo](https://github.com/nju-websoft/OpenEA)\]: a TensorFlow-based EA framework. 1. **EAkit** \[[repo](https://github.com/THU-KEG/EAkit)\]: a PyTorch-based EA framework. ## Comments If you find any errors in the above information, please let us know in [Issues](https://github.com/THU-KEG/Entity_Alignment_Papers/issues). [Pull requests](https://github.com/THU-KEG/Entity_Alignment_Papers/pulls) are welcomed for adding papers.