Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Summary: Introduces Kelpie, a model-agnostic explainability framework for embedding-based link prediction in knowledge graphs. It extracts necessary and sufficient explanations by tracing training facts, enabling interpretable predictions across LP models and outperforming baselines in experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Andrea Rossi (Roma Tre University)
- 2. Donatella Firmani (Sapienza University)
- 3. Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre University)
- 4. Tommaso Teofili (Roma Tre University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{rossi_sigmod22,
title = {{Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings}},
author = {Rossi, Andrea and Firmani, Donatella and Merialdo, Paolo and Teofili, Tommaso},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517887},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517887},
year = {2022}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,597 | Accelerating Sampling and Aggregation Operations in GNN Frameworks with GPU Initiated Direct Storage Accesses | 2024 | VLDB | 6.1547003e-05 |
| 7,413 | Kelpie: an Explainability Framework for Embedding-based Link Prediction Models | 2022 | VLDB | 5.624223e-05 |
| 10,892 | eXpath: Explaining Knowledge Graph Link Prediction with Ontological Closed Path Rules | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,108 | Efficient Graph Embedding Generation and Update for Large-Scale Temporal Graph | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00038697603 |
| 141 | Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models | 2021 | VLDB | 0.0002964847 |
| 176 | Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00027191081 |
| 1,057 | YAGO3: A Knowledge Base from Multilingual Wikipedias | 2015 | CIDR | 0.00012387149 |
| 2,781 | Realistic Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods: An Experimental Study | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.1281896e-05 |
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