CLAIJan 14, 2025

Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey

arXiv:2501.07766v210 citationsh-index: 2Mathematics
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It addresses the integration of LLMs into KGE for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it surveys existing methods rather than introducing new ones.

This survey investigates the application of large language models (LLMs) to knowledge graph embedding (KGE) tasks, summarizing various approaches across different KGE scenarios and suggesting future research directions.

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention for their superior performance in many knowledge-driven applications on the world wide web.These models are designed to train hundreds of millions or more parameters on large amounts of text data, enabling them to understand and generate naturallanguage effectively. As the superior performance of LLMs becomes apparent,they are increasingly being applied to knowledge graph embedding (KGE) related tasks to improve the processing results. Traditional KGE representation learning methods map entities and relations into a low-dimensional vector space, enablingthe triples in the knowledge graph to satisfy a specific scoring function in thevector space. However, based on the powerful language understanding and seman-tic modeling capabilities of LLMs, that have recently been invoked to varying degrees in different types of KGE related scenarios such as multi-modal KGE andopen KGE according to their task characteristics. In this paper, we investigate awide range of approaches for performing LLMs-related tasks in different types of KGE scenarios. To better compare the various approaches, we summarize each KGE scenario in a classification. Finally, we discuss the applications in which the methods are mainly used and suggest several forward-looking directions for the development of this new research area.

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