Aggregation or separation? Adaptive embedding message passing for knowledge graph completion

Knowledge graph completion intends to infer information within knowledge graphs, thereby bolstering the functionality of knowledge-driven applications. Recently, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) for knowledge graph completion. These GCN-based models primarily focus on aggregating information from neighboring entities and relations. Nonetheless, a fundamental question arises: is it beneficial to consider all neighbor information, and should some neighbor features be separated? We tackle this issue and present an adaptive graph convolutional network (AdaGCN) for knowledge graph completion, which can adaptively aggregate or separate neighbor information for knowledge embedding learning. Specifically, AdaGCN utilizes the adaptive message-passing mechanism to determine the importance of each relation, allocating weights to neighbor entity embeddings. This adaptive approach facilitates the propagation of valuable information while effectively separating less relevant or unnecessary details. Experimental results demonstrate that AdaGCN can efficiently acquire the embeddings of various triplets within knowledge graphs, and it achieves competitive performance compared to SOTA models on six datasets for the tasks of knowledge graph completion.