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Noise-powered Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Representation Framework

Zhuo Chen, Yin Fang, Yichi Zhang, Lingbing Guo, Jiaoyan Chen, Jeff Z. Pan, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang

Abstract

The rise of Multi-modal Pre-training highlights the necessity for a unified Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph (MMKG) representation learning framework. Such a framework is essential for embedding structured knowledge into multi-modal Large Language Models effectively, alleviating issues like knowledge misconceptions and multi-modal hallucinations. In this work, we explore the efficacy of models in accurately embedding entities within MMKGs through two pivotal tasks: Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion (MKGC) and Multi-modal Entity Alignment (MMEA). Building on this foundation, we propose a novel SNAG method that utilizes a Transformer-based architecture equipped with modality-level noise masking to robustly integrate multi-modal entity features in KGs. By incorporating specific training objectives for both MKGC and MMEA, our approach achieves SOTA performance across a total of ten datasets, demonstrating its versatility. Moreover, SNAG can not only function as a standalone model but also enhance other existing methods, providing stable performance improvements. Code and data are available at https://github.com/zjukg/SNAG.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen-etal-2025-noise,
    title = "Noise-powered Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Representation Framework",
    author = "Chen, Zhuo  and
      Fang, Yin  and
      Zhang, Yichi  and
      Guo, Lingbing  and
      Chen, Jiaoyan  and
      Pan, Jeff Z.  and
      Chen, Huajun  and
      Zhang, Wen",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.11/",
    pages = "141--155"
}
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