Biquaternionic Space with Complex-valued Attention for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

arXiv:2609.14279 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-13

Updated: 2026-09-13

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Temporal knowledge graph embedding (TKGE) models infer missing facts in knowledge graphs that evolve over time.

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Temporal knowledge graph embedding (TKGE) models infer missing facts in knowledge graphs that evolve over time. Many existing models use a single geometric space, which can limit their ability to represent diverse relational patterns, or treat entity representations as static. We propose Biquaternionic Space with Complex-valued Attention (BSCA), a TKGE model that combines circular and hyperbolic rotations within a unified biquaternionic framework. A complex-valued attention mechanism adaptively fuses time-conditioned and relation-conditioned entity representations, allowing them to vary with temporal and relational context. Experiments on five benchmark datasets show competitive performance across datasets, with the largest improvement on GDELT: BSCA achieves an MRR of 52.1%, compared with 38.1% for the strongest baseline in our comparison.

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