Rule-Guided Graph Neural Networks for Explainable Knowledge Graph Reasoning

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Wang, Z
Ma, S
Wang, K
Zhuang, Z
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2025
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The connections between symbolic rules and neural networks have been explored in various directions, including rule mining through neural networks and rule-based explanation for neural networks. These approaches allow symbolic rules to be extracted from neural network models, which offers explainability to the models. However, the plausibility of the extracted rules is rarely analysed. In this paper, we show that the confidence degrees of extracted rules are generally not high, and we propose a new family of Graph Neural Networks that can be trained with the guidance of rules. Hence, the inference of our model simulates the rule reasoning. Moreover, rules with high confidence degrees can be extracted from the trained model that aligns with the inference of the model, which verifies the effectiveness of the rule guidance. Experimental evaluation of knowledge graph reasoning tasks further demonstrates the effectiveness of our model.

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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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39

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12

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Wang, Z; Ma, S; Wang, K; Zhuang, Z, Rule-Guided Graph Neural Networks for Explainable Knowledge Graph Reasoning, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025, 39 (12), pp. 12784-12791