# An Effective and Efficient Time-aware Entity Alignment Framework via Two-aspect Three-view Label Propagation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06013 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.06013/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Jul 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

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- [A Survey on Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering: Methods, Challenges and Solutions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.11644/) (2021)
- [Relational Reflection Entity Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.07962/) (2020)
- [LightEA: A Scalable, Robust, and Interpretable Entity Alignment Framework via Three-view Label Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10436/) (2022)
- [Time-aware Graph Neural Networks for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02150/) (2022)
- [A Simple Temporal Information Matching Mechanism for Entity Alignment Between Temporal Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.09677/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [SOLA-GCL: Subgraph-Oriented Learnable Augmentation Method for Graph Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10100/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entity pairs between different knowledge graphs (KGs), which is crucial to promote knowledge fusion. With the wide use of temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs), time-aware EA (TEA) methods appear to enhance EA. Existing TEA models are based on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) and achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, but it is difficult to transfer them to large-scale TKGs due to the scalability issue of GNN. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient non-neural EA framework between TKGs, namely LightTEA, which consists of four essential components: (1) Two-aspect Three-view Label Propagation, (2) Sparse Similarity with Temporal Constraints, (3) Sinkhorn Operator, and (4) Temporal Iterative Learning. All of these modules work together to improve the performance of EA while reducing the time consumption of the model. Extensive experiments on public datasets indicate that our proposed model significantly outperforms the SOTA methods for EA between TKGs, and the time consumed by LightTEA is only dozens of seconds at most, no more than 10% of the most efficient TEA method.