AdaTKG: Adaptive Memory for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
For temporal knowledge graph reasoning, this work addresses the limitation of static entity representations by enabling dynamic updates, improving prediction accuracy.
AdaTKG introduces adaptive per-entity memory for temporal knowledge graph reasoning, updating representations with each interaction via a learnable exponential moving average. It achieves consistent gains over existing TKG baselines.
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) represent time-stamped relational facts and support a wide range of reasoning tasks over evolving events. However, existing methods produce entity representations that are static at the entity level, in that each representation is a function of learned parameters only and retains no trace of the interactions in which the entity has participated. In this paper, we depart from this static view and propose that each entity be modeled as an adaptive process whose representation is refined every time the entity participates in a fact. To this end, we propose AdaTKG, which maintains a per-entity memory that is updated with every observed interaction, with the memory accumulating online and predictions improving as more interactions arrive. Specifically, we instantiate the memory update as a learnable exponential moving average governed by a single shared scalar instead of using learnable parameters for each entity, enabling AdaTKG to handle entities unseen during training. Extensive experiments confirm consistent gains over TKG baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of adaptive memory. Code is publicly available at: https://github.com/seunghan96/AdaTKG.