# Adaptive Path-Memory Network for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12604 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.12604/

## Key facts

- Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 25 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Apr 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 25 of 25)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.02907/) (2016)
- [Modeling Relational Data with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06103/) (2017)
- [Embedding Entities and Relations for Learning and Inference in Knowledge Bases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6575/) (2014)
- [Complex Embeddings for Simple Link Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.06357/) (2016)
- [RotatE: Knowledge Graph Embedding by Relational Rotation in Complex Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.10197/) (2019)
- [Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.09405/) (2020)
- [Convolutional 2D Knowledge Graph Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.01476/) (2017)
- [Principal Neighbourhood Aggregation for Graph Nets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.05718/) (2020)
- [Composition-based Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.03082/) (2019)
- [Neural Bellman-Ford Networks: A General Graph Neural Network Framework for Link Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06935/) (2021)
- [Know-Evolve: Deep Temporal Reasoning for Dynamic Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.05742/) (2017)
- [Learning Sequence Encoders for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.03202/) (2018)
- [End-to-end Structure-Aware Convolutional Networks for Knowledge Base Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.04441/) (2018)
- [Tensor Decompositions for temporal knowledge base completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.04926/) (2020)
- [Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Evolutional Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.10353/) (2021)
- [Diachronic Embedding for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.03143/) (2019)
- [Learning from History: Modeling Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Sequential Copy-Generation Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.08492/) (2020)
- [TimeTraveler: Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04101/) (2021)
- [TeMP: Temporal Message Passing for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03526/) (2020)
- [Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting with Neural ODE](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.05151/) (2021)
- [Neural-Symbolic Models for Logical Queries on Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.10128/) (2022)
- [LightCAKE: A Lightweight Framework for Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.10826/) (2021)
- [TranSHER: Translating Knowledge Graph Embedding with Hyper-Ellipsoidal Restriction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.13221/) (2022)
- [Context-Enhanced Entity and Relation Embedding for Knowledge Graph Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.07011/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Temporal Inductive Path Neural Network for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.03251/) (2023)
- [GCAL: Adapting Graph Models to Evolving Domain Shifts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.16860/) (2025)
- [Rethinking Graph Contrastive Learning through Relative Similarity Preservation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.05533/) (2025)
- [Make Graph Neural Networks Great Again: A Generic Integration Paradigm of Topology-Free Patterns for Traffic Speed Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.16992/) (2024)
- [Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.08815/) (2026)
- [Distilling Closed-Source LLM's Knowledge for Locally Stable and Economic Biomedical Entity Linking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.19722/) (2025)
- [Beyond Paper-to-Paper: Structured Profiling and Rubric Scoring for Paper-Reviewer Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.05866/) (2026)
- [CHE-TKG: Collaborative Historical Evidence and Evolutionary Dynamics Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.04652/) (2026)
- [Strikingness-Aware Evaluation for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.13153/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning aims to predict the future missing facts based on historical information and has gained increasing research interest recently. Lots of works have been made to model the historical structural and temporal characteristics for the reasoning task. Most existing works model the graph structure mainly depending on entity representation. However, the magnitude of TKG entities in real-world scenarios is considerable, and an increasing number of new entities will arise as time goes on. Therefore, we propose a novel architecture modeling with relation feature of TKG, namely aDAptivE path-MemOry Network (DaeMon), which adaptively models the temporal path information between query subject and each object candidate across history time. It models the historical information without depending on entity representation. Specifically, DaeMon uses path memory to record the temporal path information derived from path aggregation unit across timeline considering the memory passing strategy between adjacent timestamps. Extensive experiments conducted on four real-world TKG datasets demonstrate that our proposed model obtains substantial performance improvement and outperforms the state-of-the-art up to 4.8% absolute in MRR.
