Subgraph2vec: A random walk-based algorithm for embedding knowledge graphs

Graph is an important data representation which occurs naturally in the real world applications citegoyal2018graph. Therefore, analyzing graphs provides users with better insights in different areas such as anomaly detection citema2021comprehensive, decision making citefan2023graph, clustering citetsitsulin2023graph, classification citewang2021mixup and etc. However, most of these methods require high levels of computational time and space. We can use other ways like embedding to reduce these costs. Knowledge graph (KG) embedding is a technique that aims to achieve the vector representation of a KG. It represents entities and relations of a KG in a low-dimensional space while maintaining the semantic meanings of them. There are different methods for embedding graphs including random walk-based methods such as node2vec, metapath2vec and regpattern2vec. However, most of these methods bias the walks based on a rigid pattern usually hard-coded in the algorithm. In this work, we introduce textitsubgraph2vec for embedding KGs where walks are run inside a user-defined subgraph. We use this embedding for link prediction and prove our method has better performance in most cases in comparison with the previous ones.