Structure-Aware Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Knowledge Graphs without External Knowledge (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Zero-shot Relational Learning depend on external knowledge, resulting in increased annotation costs and limited practical applicability. |
| Approach: | They propose a structure-aware paradigm that performs ZRL without external knowledge . it leverages intrinsic structural patterns in KGs to bridge semantic correlations for new relations with existing ones. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm achieves 10.66% improvement in MRR while reducing annotation costs and enhancing practical applicability on three real-world benchmarks. |
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