Multi-source knowledge fusion is one of the important research topics in the fields of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and so on. The research results of multi-source knowledge fusion can help computer to better understand human intelligence, human language and human thinking, effectively promote the Big Search in Cyberspace, effectively promote the construction of domain knowledge graphs (KGs), and bring enormous social and economic benefits. Due to the uncertainty of knowledge acquisition, the reliability and confidence of KG based on entity recognition and relationship extraction technology need to be evaluated. On the one hand, the process of multi-source knowledge reasoning can detect conflicts and provide help for knowledge evaluation and verification; on the other hand, the new knowledge acquired by knowledge reasoning is also uncertain and needs to be evaluated and verified. Collaborative reasoning of multi-source knowledge includes not only inferring new knowledge from multi-source knowledge, but also conflict detection, i.e. identifying erroneous knowledge or conflicts between knowledges. Starting from several related concepts of multi-source knowledge fusion, this paper comprehensively introduces the latest research progress of open-source knowledge fusion, multi-knowledge graphs fusion, information fusion within KGs, multi-modal knowledge fusion and multi-source knowledge collaborative reasoning. On this basis, the challenges and future research directions of multi-source knowledge fusion in a large-scale knowledge base environment are discussed.

Among various temporal knowledge graph (TKG) extrapolation methods, rule-based approaches stand out for their explicit rules and transparent reasoning paths. However, the vast search space for rule extraction poses a challenge in identifying high-quality logic rules. To navigate this challenge, we explore the use of generation models to generate new rules, thereby enriching our rule base and enhancing our reasoning capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LLM-DR, an innovative rule-based method for TKG extrapolation, which harnesses diffusion models to generate rules that are consistent with the distribution of the source data, while also amalgamating the rich semantic insights of Large Language Models (LLMs). Specifically, our LLM-DR generates semantically relevant and high-quality rules, employing conditional diffusion models in a classifier-free guidance fashion and refining them with LLM-based constraints. To assess rule efficacy, we meticulously design a coarse-to-fine evaluation strategy that initiates with coarse-grained filtering to eliminate less plausible rules and proceeds with fine-grained scoring to quantify the reliability of the retained. Extensive experiments demonstrate the promising capacity of our LLM-DR.

Knowledge graphs’ reasoning is of great significance for the further development of artificial intelligence and information retrieval, especially for reasoning over temporal knowledge graphs. The rotation-based method has been shown to be effective at modeling entities and relations on a knowledge graph. However, due to the lack of temporal information representation capability, existing approaches can only model partial relational patterns and they cannot handle temporal combination reasoning. In this regard, we propose HTTR: Householder Transformation-based Temporal knowledge graph Reasoning, which focuses on the characteristics of relations that evolve over time. HTTR first fuses the relation and temporal information in the knowledge graph, then uses the Householder transformation to obtain an orthogonal matrix about the fused information, and finally defines the orthogonal matrix as the rotation of the head-entity to the tail-entity and calculates the similarity between the rotated vector and the vector representation of the tail entity. In addition, we compare three methods for fusing relational and temporal information. We allow other fusion methods to replace the current one as long as the dimensionality satisfies the requirements. We show that HTTR is able to outperform state-of-the-art methods in temporal knowledge graph reasoning tasks and has the ability to learn and infer all of the four relational patterns over time: symmetric reasoning, antisymmetric reasoning, inversion reasoning, and temporal combination reasoning.