Knowledge Sheaves: A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Knowledge Graph Embedding

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Publication date: 7 October 2021

Abstract: Knowledge graph embedding involves learning representations of entities -- the vertices of the graph -- and relations -- the edges of the graph -- such that the resulting representations encode the known factual information represented by the knowledge graph and can be used in the inference of new relations. We show that knowledge graph embedding is naturally expressed in the topological and categorical language of extit{cellular sheaves}: a knowledge graph embedding can be described as an approximate global section of an appropriate extit{knowledge sheaf} over the graph, with consistency constraints induced by the knowledge graph's schema. This approach provides a generalized framework for reasoning about knowledge graph embedding models and allows for the expression of a wide range of prior constraints on embeddings. Further, the resulting embeddings can be easily adapted for reasoning over composite relations without special training. We implement these ideas to highlight the benefits of the extensions inspired by this new perspective.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/tgebhart/sheaf_kg

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