Explainable Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Expressive Logic Rules

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Bao, X
Wang, K
Wang, Z
Wu, H
Zuo, J
Zhang, X
Feng, Z
Wu, H
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2025
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Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) capture dynamic event behaviors with temporal information. However, existing TKG link prediction methods are predominantly embedding-based, lacking interpretability and transparency. This paper presents TempRuLe, a novel method for temporal rule learning on TKGs. By leveraging a new search strategy for temporal path patterns, TempRuLe learns a general class of temporal rules while maintaining full interpretability by applying symbolic reasoning. Experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate its superior performance. In the context where embedding and neural network-based representation learning methods dominate, we once again demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of pure symbolic logic reasoning. Our code, results, and datasets can be obtained through this repository: https://github.com/Xianglong-Bao/TempRuLe.

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Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, June 10–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

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15870

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Data mining and knowledge discovery

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Bao, X; Wang, K; Wang, Z; Wu, H; Zuo, J; Zhang, X; Feng, Z; Wu, H, Explainable Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Expressive Logic Rules,, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, June 10–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part I, 2025, pp. 175-186