LightEA: A Scalable, Robust, and Interpretable Entity Alignment Framework via Three-view Label Propagation

19 Oct 2022  ยท  Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan ยท

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to find equivalent entity pairs between KGs, which is the core step of bridging and integrating multi-source KGs. In this paper, we argue that existing GNN-based EA methods inherit the inborn defects from their neural network lineage: weak scalability and poor interpretability. Inspired by recent studies, we reinvent the Label Propagation algorithm to effectively run on KGs and propose a non-neural EA framework -- LightEA, consisting of three efficient components: (i) Random Orthogonal Label Generation, (ii) Three-view Label Propagation, and (iii) Sparse Sinkhorn Iteration. According to the extensive experiments on public datasets, LightEA has impressive scalability, robustness, and interpretability. With a mere tenth of time consumption, LightEA achieves comparable results to state-of-the-art methods across all datasets and even surpasses them on many.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Entity Alignment DBP1M DE-EN LightEA-I Hit@1 0.289 # 1
Entity Alignment DBP1M DE-EN LightEA-B Hit@1 0.262 # 3
Entity Alignment DBP1M FR-EN LightEA Hit@1 0.285 # 1

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