A Multi-View Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Framework with Interpretable Logic Rules and Feature Fusion

Abstract

A temporal knowledge graph represents temporal information between entities in a multi-relational graph. Its reasoning aims to infer and predict potential links among entities. Predicting time-aware entities is a challenging task due to significant differences in entity appearances over time, such as different timestamps and frequencies. Current embedding-based similarity-matching methods have been introduced for predicting temporal facts. However, they lack deterministic logical explainability and cannot model the dynamic evolution of entities over time. To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework for temporal knowledge graph reasoning based on multi-view feature fusion (MVFF). First, MVFF extracts logical rules and uses the Gumbel-Softmax trick to sample high-quality rules. Second, it integrates logical rules, temporal quadruples, and factual triples to capture semantic features, temporal information, and structural information to solve link prediction tasks. Through experiments on four benchmark datasets, we show that MVFF outperforms state-of-the-art methods, providing not only better performance but also interpretable results.