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sl:arxiv_author : Pat Verga

[2102.07043] Reasoning Over Virtual Knowledge Bases With Open Predicate Relations

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> a method for constructing **a virtual KB (VKB) trained entirely from text**

Open Predicate Query Language (OPQL): constructing a virtual knowledge base (VKB) that supports KB reasoning & open-domain QA, tackling the incompleteness of knowledge bases by constructing a virtual KB only from text

> OPQL constructs
a VKB by **encoding and indexing a set of
relation mentions** in a way that naturally enables
reasoning and can be trained without any structured
supervision.

> can be used
as an **external memory integrated into a language
model**

cf. this earlier paper [[2002.10640] Differentiable Reasoning over a Virtual Knowledge Base](doc:2020/07/2002_10640_differentiable_rea). But does not require an initial structured KB for distant
supervision.

> The key idea in constructing the OPQL VKB is to use a
dual-encoder pre-training process, similar to 
[[1906.03158] Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarity for Relation Learning](doc:2021/05/1906_03158_matching_the_blank)

Related work section refers to [[1909.04164] Knowledge Enhanced Contextual Word Representations](doc:2020/05/1909_04164_knowledge_enhanced). Also refers to [[2007.00849] Facts as Experts: Adaptable and Interpretable Neural Memory over Symbolic Knowledge](doc:2020/07/2007_00849_facts_as_experts_) (some authors in common)

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[2007.00849] Facts as Experts: Adaptable and Interpretable Neural Memory over Symbolic Knowledge

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> a neural language model that includes **an explicit interface between symbolically interpretable factual information and subsymbolic neural knowledge.**... **The model can be updated without re-training by manipulating its symbolic representations**. In particular this model allows us to add new facts and overwrite existing ones.

> a **neural language model which learns to access information
in a symbolic knowledge graph.**

> This
model builds on the recently-proposed [Entities as
Experts](doc:2020/07/2004_07202_entities_as_expert) (EaE) language model (Févry et al., 2020),
which extends the same transformer (Vaswani
et al., 2017) architecture of BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) with an additional external memory for entities.
>
> After training EaE, the embedding associated
with an entity will (ideally) capture information
about the textual context in which that
entity appears, and by inference, the entity’s semantic
properties
>
> we include an additional
memory called a fact memory, which encodes
triples from a symbolic KB.
>
> This combination results in a
neural language model which learns to access information
in a the symbolic knowledge graph.

TODO:

- read again IBM's [Span Selection Pre-training for Question Answering](doc:2019/09/_1909_04120_span_selection_pre) ("an effort to avoid encoding general knowledge in the transformer network itself")
- compare with [[1907.05242] Large Memory Layers with Product Keys](doc:2019/07/_1907_05242_large_memory_layer)
- how does it relate with [[2002.08909] REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training](doc:2020/12/2002_08909_realm_retrieval_a)?

2020-07-09 About