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Robust Knowledge Graph Embedding via Denoising

  • Tengwei Song
  • , Xudong Ma
  • , Yang Liu
  • , Jie Luo
  • , Robert Hoehndorf*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Knowledge graph embedding models have achieved remarkable success in link prediction and reasoning tasks, yet they remain highly vulnerable to perturbations in the embedding space. Such perturbations, whether introduced by noisy triples, representation drift or adversarial manipulation, can lead to severe degradation in prediction stability and significantly affect downstream multi-hop reasoning processes. To address this challenge, we propose a unified robustness enhancement framework named Robust Knowledge Graph Embedding via Denoising. The framework explicitly incorporates denoising as an auxiliary learning signal and views knowledge graph embedding models as energy-based systems, allowing us to exploit the theoretical connection between denoising objectives and score matching. This enables the model to learn stable gradients with respect to perturbed representations and improves resilience against embedding-level noise. In addition, we introduce certified robustness metrics for knowledge graph embedding based on randomized smoothing, offering a principled way to measure the certified radius within which model predictions remain unchanged. Extensive experiments on widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently improves both predictive performance and robustness across various categories of knowledge graph embedding models. The results further show that our method is effective under substantial perturbations and offers meaningful gains in multi-hop reasoning scenarios, highlighting its potential as a general robustness enhancement strategy for knowledge graph representation learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/tewiSong/RKGE.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2026, Proceedings
EditorsMaribel Acosta, Marieke van Erp, Sebastian Rudolph, Olaf Hartig, Blerina Spahiu, Anisa Rula, Daniel Garijo, Francesco Osborne
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages417-435
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783032251558
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Event23rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2026 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 10 May 202614 May 2026

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16549 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2026
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period10/05/2614/05/26

Keywords

  • Adversarial perturbation
  • Denoising
  • Knowledge graph embedding
  • Link prediction
  • Randomized smoothing
  • Robustness

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