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arxiv: 2605.18255 · v1 · pith:CYM6NYJWnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 💻 cs.IR

RCTEA: Richness-guided Co-training for Temporal Entity Alignment

Jiayun Li , Wen Hua , Shiqi Fan , Fengmei Jin , Haiyang Jiang , Xue Li This is my paper

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keywords temporal entity alignmenttemporal knowledge graphsentity alignmentco-trainingattention mechanismfeature fusionneighborhood consensus
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RCTEA aligns entities in temporal knowledge graphs by fusing structural and temporal features with richness-guided attention and dual-view consensus.

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The paper introduces RCTEA to improve temporal entity alignment by jointly handling both the structure and timing of facts in temporal knowledge graphs. Existing approaches miss how these two kinds of information can support each other and often ignore how rich or informative a piece of context is. RCTEA adds a richness-guided attention step plus adaptive weighting to blend the features, then uses a dual-view neighborhood consensus step to clean up noisy alignments. The result is higher accuracy on standard benchmark tasks for linking equivalent entities across different temporal sources. A sympathetic reader would care because better alignment makes it easier to combine knowledge from multiple evolving datasets without manual matching.

Core claim

The RCTEA framework jointly models structural and temporal aspects of TKGs for entity alignment by designing a richness-guided attention mechanism along with an adaptive weighting strategy to facilitate effective feature fusion, and introducing a dual-view neighborhood consensus algorithm that jointly refines the feature encoders to enforce local structural consistency of the predicted alignments.

What carries the argument

richness-guided attention mechanism with adaptive weighting and dual-view neighborhood consensus algorithm that fuses complementary structural and temporal features while enforcing alignment consistency

Load-bearing premise

That structural and temporal features in temporal knowledge graphs are orthogonal yet complementary in a way that richness-guided attention and dual-view consensus can capture them without introducing new biases or overfitting to the test sets.

What would settle it

A new temporal entity alignment benchmark where entity neighborhoods have uniform information richness and the dual-view consensus step yields no accuracy gain over a simple structural-temporal fusion baseline would falsify the value of the proposed mechanisms.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18255 by Fengmei Jin, Haiyang Jiang, Jiayun Li, Shiqi Fan, Wen Hua, Xue Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Example of temporal entity alignment. Given the dynamic and complex nature of entity￾wise interactions, the incorporation of temporal information into KGs has led to the emergence of Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) (Trisedya et al., 2019; Zeng et al., 2020; Ge et al., 2021; Xin et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2023a). TKGs ex￾tend traditional triples by including timestamps, enabling a richer representation of d… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: RCTEA framework overview. Cei denotes the set of features contained by entity ei ; Fic is the set of facts involving both entity ei and feature c. For example, when C = E, Cei = Nei represent all the neighboring entities that ei connects to. Similarly, when C = I, Cei = Iei indicates all the temporal intervals that ei exists a relation with other entities. Both the structural and temporal encoders learn th… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Example of richness-guided attention weights. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Efficiency evaluation on YAGO-WIKI180K. Specifically: (a) compares the time consumption and overall performance across different models; (b) illus￾trates the relationship between model iterations and per￾formance for our approach. 6 Conclusion Existing TEA models tend to underestimate the im￾portance of relational and temporal features, as well as the inherent noise present in both. Our proposed RCTEA mode… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The triple details for entity Éver_Guzmán [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: (a) Relation weighting for selected entity vs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Model Performance vs. Iteration, illus [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Temporal Entity Alignment (TEA), which aims to identify equivalent entities across Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs), is crucial for integrating knowledge facts from multiple sources. However, existing TEA models often fail to capture the orthogonal yet complementary effects between structural and temporal features, and typically overlook the importance of information richness, a key factor for effective message passing in neural feature encoders. To address these limitations, we propose the RCTEA framework, which jointly models both structural and temporal aspects of TKGs for entity alignment. Specifically, we design a richness-guided attention mechanism along with an adaptive weighting strategy to facilitate effective feature fusion. To ensure robust alignment despite noisy entity contexts, we introduce a dual-view neighborhood consensus algorithm that jointly refines the feature encoders to enforce local structural consistency of the predicted alignments. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of RCTEA, achieving state-of-the-art performance on public TEA benchmarks.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes RCTEA, a co-training framework for temporal entity alignment (TEA) over temporal knowledge graphs. It jointly encodes structural and temporal features via a richness-guided attention mechanism and adaptive weighting strategy, then applies a dual-view neighborhood consensus algorithm to refine alignments under noisy contexts, claiming state-of-the-art results on public TEA benchmarks.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold after verification, the work would contribute a concrete mechanism for exploiting complementary structural-temporal signals while mitigating noise via consensus; the explicit focus on information richness during message passing is a useful addition to the TEA literature. No machine-checked proofs or parameter-free derivations are present, but the dual-view consensus and richness-guided components are clearly motivated and could be reusable.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3.2 (richness-guided attention) and Section 4 (experiments)] The central claim rests on the assumption that structural and temporal features exhibit orthogonal yet complementary effects that the richness-guided attention plus adaptive weighting can exploit without introducing new correlations. No post-fusion analysis (e.g., canonical correlation analysis, pairwise feature correlations, or ablation on orthogonality metrics) is reported after message passing, particularly under the noisy contexts that the dual-view consensus is intended to address.
  2. [Section 4.2 and Table 2] Table 2 and the main results table report SOTA performance, yet the manuscript supplies neither error bars across multiple runs nor statistical significance tests against the strongest baselines; without these, it is impossible to judge whether the reported gains are robust or could be explained by hyperparameter tuning alone.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Section 2] The notation for temporal knowledge graphs (e.g., the precise definition of time-stamped triples and the richness score) is introduced without a dedicated preliminary section, which may slow readers unfamiliar with TEA.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (dual-view consensus diagram) would benefit from explicit arrows or labels indicating the flow of the adaptive weighting coefficients between the two views.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [Section 3.2 (richness-guided attention) and Section 4 (experiments)] The central claim rests on the assumption that structural and temporal features exhibit orthogonal yet complementary effects that the richness-guided attention plus adaptive weighting can exploit without introducing new correlations. No post-fusion analysis (e.g., canonical correlation analysis, pairwise feature correlations, or ablation on orthogonality metrics) is reported after message passing, particularly under the noisy contexts that the dual-view consensus is intended to address.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. While the ablations in Section 4 demonstrate the contribution of the richness-guided attention and adaptive weighting to overall performance, we agree that explicit post-fusion analysis would strengthen the claim of orthogonality and complementarity. In the revised manuscript we will add canonical correlation analysis and pairwise correlation metrics between structural and temporal embeddings before and after fusion. We will further report these metrics under varying noise levels to connect the analysis directly to the dual-view consensus mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 4.2 and Table 2] Table 2 and the main results table report SOTA performance, yet the manuscript supplies neither error bars across multiple runs nor statistical significance tests against the strongest baselines; without these, it is impossible to judge whether the reported gains are robust or could be explained by hyperparameter tuning alone.

    Authors: We acknowledge that reporting variability and statistical significance is important for robust evaluation. In the revised version we will rerun all experiments with at least five different random seeds, reporting mean and standard deviation for every metric in Table 2 and the main results table. We will also conduct paired statistical tests (e.g., t-test) against the strongest baselines and include p-values to demonstrate that the observed improvements are unlikely to arise from hyperparameter tuning alone. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: framework components are independently motivated and evaluated on external benchmarks

full rationale

The RCTEA paper introduces a new model with richness-guided attention, adaptive weighting, and dual-view neighborhood consensus to address stated limitations in prior TEA work. These are presented as design choices motivated by the problem, not derived from the target performance metric. Experimental results on public benchmarks are reported as evidence of superiority, with no equations or steps that reduce a claimed prediction back to a fitted input or self-citation by construction. The orthogonality assumption is an external modeling hypothesis rather than a self-referential definition. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external data.

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0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

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