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Hybrid Transformer with Multi-level Fusion for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion

arXiv 2205.02357 ↗First posted 4 May 2022cs.CL cs.AI cs.CVcited by 44

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Abstract (arXiv)

Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (MKGs), which organize visual-text factual knowledge, have recently been successfully applied to tasks such as information retrieval, question answering, and recommendation system. Since most MKGs are far from complete, extensive knowledge graph completion studies have been proposed focusing on the multimodal entity, relation extraction and link prediction. However, different tasks and modalities require changes to the model architecture, and not all images/objects are relevant to text input, which hinders the applicability to diverse real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose a hybrid transformer with multi-level fusion to address those issues. Specifically, we leverage a hybrid transformer architecture with unified input-output for diverse multimodal knowledge graph completion tasks. Moreover, we propose multi-level fusion, which integrates visual and text representation via coarse-grained prefix-guided interaction and fine-grained correlation-aware fusion modules. We conduct extensive experiments to validate that our MKGformer can obtain SOTA performance on four datasets of multimodal link prediction, multimodal RE, and multimodal NER. Code is available in https://github.com/zjunlp/MKGformer.

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  1. 2022A Survey of Knowledge Graph Reasoning on Graph Types: Static, Dynamic, and Multimodalcited by 106
  2. 2025UniGraph2: Learning a Unified Embedding Space to Bind Multimodal Graphscited by 49
  3. 2023Multimodal Recommender Systems: A Surveycited by 37
  4. 2024Graph Transformers: A Surveycited by 32
  5. 2024Learning on Multimodal Graphs: A Surveycited by 22
  6. 2022Multimodal Analogical Reasoning over Knowledge Graphscited by 21
  7. 2025Aligning Vision to Language: Annotation-Free Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction for Enhanced LLMs Reasoningcited by 19
  8. 2025Graph4MM: Weaving Multimodal Learning with Structural Informationcited by 17
  9. 2023Structure Pretraining and Prompt Tuning for Knowledge Graph Transfercited by 16
  10. 2023Information Screening whilst Exploiting! Multimodal Relation Extraction with Feature Denoising and Multimodal Topic Modelingcited by 16
  11. 2023Continual Multimodal Knowledge Graph Constructioncited by 15
  12. 2022MoSE: Modality Split and Ensemble for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 14
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  2. 2022Construction and Applications of Billion-Scale Pre-Trained Multimodal Business Knowledge Graphcited by 13
  3. 2024Multiple Heads are Better than One: Mixture of Modality Knowledge Experts for Entity Representation Learningcited by 13
  4. 2023Enhancing Multimodal Entity and Relation Extraction with Variational Information Bottleneckcited by 9
  5. 2023Structure Guided Multi-modal Pre-trained Transformer for Knowledge Graph Reasoningcited by 8
  6. 2023Learning Implicit Entity-object Relations by Bidirectional Generative Alignment for Multimodal NERcited by 8
  7. 2025Collaborative Multi-LoRA Experts with Achievement-based Multi-Tasks Loss for Unified Multimodal Information Extractioncited by 7
  8. 2026Toward Effective Multimodal Graph Foundation Model: A Divide-and-Conquer Based Approachcited by 7
  9. 2023Chain-of-Thought Prompt Distillation for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition and Multimodal Relation Extractioncited by 6
  10. 2023Multimodal Question Answering for Unified Information Extractioncited by 6
  11. 2022A Unified Continuous Learning Framework for Multi-modal Knowledge Discovery and Pre-trainingcited by 5
  12. 2022Towards Realistic Low-resource Relation Extraction: A Benchmark with Empirical Baseline Studycited by 5
  13. 2024TT-BLIP: Enhancing Fake News Detection Using BLIP and Tri-Transformercited by 3
  14. 2024Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Multimodal Knowledge Graphscited by 3
  15. 2024Uncertainty-Aware Relational Graph Neural Network for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 2
  16. 2024Similarity Guided Multimodal Fusion Transformer for Semantic Location Prediction in Social Mediacited by 2
  17. 2024Shapley Value-based Contrastive Alignment for Multimodal Information Extractioncited by 2
  18. 2025VAT-KG: Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Knowledge Graph Dataset for Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 2
  19. 2025REMOTE: A Unified Multimodal Relation Extraction Framework with Multilevel Optimal Transport and Mixture-of-Expertscited by 2
  20. 2022Visually Grounded Commonsense Knowledge Acquisitioncited by 1
  21. 2024Variational Multi-Modal Hypergraph Attention Network for Multi-Modal Relation Extractioncited by 1
  22. 20242M-NER: Contrastive Learning for Multilingual and Multimodal NER with Language and Modal Fusioncited by 1
  23. 2024Contrast then Memorize: Semantic Neighbor Retrieval-Enhanced Inductive Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 1
  24. 2025Transformer-Based Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion with Link-Aware Contextscited by 1
  25. 2025DiffusionCom: Structure-Aware Multimodal Diffusion Model for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 1
  26. 2025CHAINSFORMER: Numerical Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs from a Chain Perspectivecited by 1
  27. 2025Hyper-modal Imputation Diffusion Embedding with Dual-Distillation for Federated Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 1
  28. 2026Modality as Heterogeneity: Node Splitting and Graph Rewiring for Multimodal Graph Learningcited by 1
  29. 2024A Pluggable Common Sense-Enhanced Framework for Knowledge Graph Completioncited by 0
  30. 2025Towards Multimodal Graph Large Language Modelcited by 0
  31. 2025Structurally Refined Graph Transformer for Multimodal Recommendationcited by 0
  32. 2026SAMA: Semantic Anchor-aligned Augmentation for Unified Low-Resource Multimodal Information Extractioncited by 0