STK-Adapter: Incorporating Evolving Graph and Event Chain for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation (2026.acl-long)
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Shuyuan Zhao, Wei Chen, Weijie Zhang, Xinrui Hou, Junfeng Shen, Boyan Shi, Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Huaiyu Wan
| Challenge: | Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) store dynamic facts in the real world. |
| Approach: | They propose a Spatial-Temporal Knowledge Adapter which integrates the evolving graph encoder and the LLM to facilitate TKG reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets and exhibits strong generalization capabilities in cross-dataset task. |
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