TBicomR: Event Prediction in Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Bicomplex Rotation

Abstract

Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) capture relationships and entities evolving over time, making event prediction a challenging task due to the complex temporal and relational dynamics. In this work, we propose BiCoTime, a novel model using bicomplex embeddings to represent entities, relations, and time. While quaternions capture asymmetric relations through non-commutativity, bicomplex numbers provide a commutative algebraic structure, ideal for modeling both symmetric and asymmetric relations. Unlike quaternions, bicomplex embeddings maintain interpretability in symmetric relations while preserving key algebraic properties like distributivity. Temporal rotations further enhance BiCoTime's ability to model the interaction between relations and time, capturing how entities and relationships evolve. This combination of bicomplex embeddings and temporal rotations ensures a more interpretable and accurate modeling of TKGs. Our experiments show that TBiComR achieved a 21% improvement in Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) on the ICEWS14 dataset, which emphasizes time points, and a 15% improvement on the YAGO11k dataset, which focuses on time spans. The choice of bicomplex numbers balances computational complexity and expressive power, offering efficient training and better predictive performance compared to models using quaternions or octonions.