Multi-Field Knowledge Graph Embedding for Memory Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models require high-dimensional vector spaces to accurately represent nodes, leading to inconsistent performance across nodes of varying degrees and high memory requirements, particularly struggling with low-degree nodes due to under-representation and excessive memory usage.
Innovation Solution
A multi-field embedding approach that splits knowledge graphs into distinct fields based on node degrees, allowing each field to embed nodes in different dimensions, reducing memory demands and improving performance by using field detectors and transformations to convert embeddings into uniform dimensions for prediction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If high-dimensional vector spaces are used to accurately represent nodes in KGE models, then the accuracy of link prediction is improved, but the memory requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different embedding dimensions to different node types based on their specific requirements. High-degree nodes receive higher-dimensional embeddings to capture their complex relationships, while low-degree nodes use lower-dimensional embeddings sufficient for their simpler relationship patterns. This differentiated approach maintains link prediction accuracy for all node types while reducing overall memory consumption compared to uniform high-dimensional embeddings.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the knowledge graph nodes into multiple categories (high-degree nodes, low-degree nodes, and intermediate nodes) based on their degree distributions. Each segment is then embedded into a separate vector space with appropriately scaled dimensions. This segmentation allows the model to allocate computational and memory resources efficiently across different node populations, resolving the contradiction between accuracy and memory usage.
2Device complexity
If a one-size-fits-all embedding dimension is used for all nodes, then the model structure is simplified, but the performance becomes inconsistent across nodes of varying degrees
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by tailoring embedding dimensions to local node characteristics. Instead of applying a uniform embedding dimension across all nodes, the system dynamically determines the appropriate dimensionality based on each node's degree and relationship patterns. This ensures that high-degree nodes receive sufficient embedding capacity for accurate representation while low-degree nodes use appropriately reduced dimensions, achieving consistent performance across heterogeneous node populations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamics into the embedding architecture by making the embedding dimensionality adaptive rather than static. The system dynamically adjusts the embedding dimension for each node based on its degree distribution and relationship complexity during the embedding process. This dynamic approach allows the model to maintain consistent performance across nodes of varying degrees while avoiding the oversimplification inherent in fixed-dimension approaches.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a framework for enhancing artificial intelligence models while reducing its memory requirements, for example, via a multi-field embedding approach. In one exemplary aspect, this framework may be applied to knowledge graphs to mitigate the effects of node degree extremity and to reduce embedding memory demand. For example, this framework may provide multiple graph fields in knowledge graphs that embed nodes in different dimensions to correct for skewness in the distribution of node degrees and decrease memory requirements when training KGE models. In some aspects, the framework may implement a user-specified strategy to split a knowledge graph into a number of distinct fields with similar connectivity patterns. KGEs may then be computed in a model-agnostic manner to allow each field to embed into a different dimensionality, and mathematical transformations may be used to convert embedding dimensions between fields when needed during algorithmic processing.


