@inproceedings{discovery10154327, year = {2021}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC)}, title = {Relation Prediction as an Auxiliary Training Objective for Improving Multi-Relational Graph Representations}, publisher = {Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC)}, month = {October}, note = {This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, address = {Virtual conference}, url = {https://www.akbc.ws/2021/cfp/}, author = {Chen, Yihong and Minervini, Pasquale and Riedel, Sebastian and Stenetorp, Pontus}, abstract = {Learning good representations on multi-relational graphs is essential to knowledge base completion (KBC). In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised training objective for multi-relational graph representation learning, via simply incorporating relation prediction into the commonly used 1vsAll objective. The new training objective contains not only terms for predicting the subject and object of a given triple, but also a term for predicting the relation type. We analyse how this new objective impacts multi-relational learning in KBC: experiments on a variety of datasets and models show that relation prediction can significantly improve entity ranking, the most widely used evaluation task for KBC, yielding a 6.1\% increase in MRR and 9.9\% increase in Hits@1 on FB15k-237 as well as a 3.1\% increase in MRR and 3.4\% in Hits@1 on Aristo-v4. Moreover, we observe that the proposed objective is especially effective on highly multi-relational datasets, i.e. datasets with a large number of predicates, and generates better representations when larger embedding sizes are used.}, keywords = {cs.CL, cs.CL, cs.AI} }