DB-2025.md

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TKDE

  1. AdaE: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Adaptive Embedding Sizes (TKDE 2025) [Paper]
  2. Multi-View Riemannian Manifolds Fusion Enhancement for Knowledge Graph Completion (TKDE 2025) [Paper]
  3. SAQE: Complex Logical Query Answering via Semantic-Aware Representation Learning (TKDE 2025) [Paper]

ICDE

  1. CHAINSFORMER: Numerical Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs from a Chain Perspective [Paper]
  2. A Translation-based Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Multiple Knowledge Graphs Alignment
  3. Historically Relevant Event Structuring for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
  4. SIT: Selective Incremental Training for Dynamic Knowledge Graph Embedding
  5. CADRL: Category-aware Dual-agent Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Recommendations over Knowledge Graphs
  6. Are We Wasting Time? A Fast, Accurate Performance Evaluation Framework for Knowledge Graph Link Predictors
  7. Towards Unsupervised Entity Alignment for Highly Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs [Github] [Paper]
  8. Trail: A Knowledge Graph-based Approach for Attributing Advanced Persistent Threats
  9. Enhancing Large-scale Entity Alignment with Critical Structure and High-quality Context
  10. CrossEM: A Prompt Tuning Framework for Cross-modal Entity Matching
  11. CrossETR: A Semantic-driven Framework for Entity Matching across Images and Graph
  12. Efficient Execution of SPARQL Queries with OPTIONAL and UNION Expressions
  13. Description-Similarity Rules: Flexible Feature Engineering for Entity Matching

SIGMOD

  1. Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation
  2. Dialogue Benchmark Generation from Knowledge Graphs with Cost-Effective Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
  3. AquaPipe: A Quality-Aware Pipeline for Knowledge Retrieval and Large Language Models
  4. Online Detection of Anomalies in Temporal Knowledge Graphs with Interpretability
  5. Lossless Transformation of Knowledge Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas
  6. Atom: An Efficient Query Serving System for Embedding-based Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Operator-level Batching
  7. Entity/Relationship Graphs
  8. Progressive entity resolution: a design space exploration
  9. Burr: A Benchmark for Ontology Learning from Relational Databases [Paper]

Other intresting topics in industrial track：

  1. TigerVector: Supporting Vector Search in Graph Databases for Advanced RAGs (Purdue+TigerGraph)
  2. GES: High-Performance Graph Processing Engine and Service in Huawei (Huawei+SJTU)
  3. Unity Catalog: Open and Universal Governance for the Lakehouse and Beyond (Databricks)
  4. MicroNN: An On-device Disk-resident Updatable Vector Database (Apple)
  5. OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML (SJTU+Tsinghua+4Paradigm)

KDD

Research Track

  1. AtomR: Atomic Operator-Empowered Large Language Models for Heterogeneous Knowledge Reasoning
  2. Explicit-Implicit Entity Alignment Method in Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs
  3. Paths to Causality: Finding Informative Subgraphs Within Knowledge Graphs for Knowledge-Based Causal Discovery
  4. SAGE: Scale-Aware Gradual Evolution for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding
  5. Way to Specialist: Closing Loop Between Specialized LLM and Evolving Domain Knowledge Graph
  6. APEX^2: Adaptive and Extreme Summarization for Personalized Knowledge Graphs
  7. CAPER: Enhancing Career Trajectory Prediction using Temporal Knowledge Graph and Ternary Relationship
  8. Multi-level Matching Network for Multimodal Entity Linking
  9. Multi-level Mixture of Experts for Multimodal Entity Linking
  10. Variational Graph Autoencoder for Heterogeneous Information Networks with Missing and Inaccurate Attributes
  11. Chi-Square Wavelet Graph Neural Networks for Heterogeneous Graph Anomaly Detection
  12. Enhancing Homophily-Heterophily Separation: Relation-Aware Learning in Heterogeneous Graphs

Applied Data Science Track

  1. Disclosing Actual Controller based on Equity Knowledge Graph Learning
  2. Effective Two-Stage Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Entity Cross-Domain Recommendation
  3. OmniSage: Large Scale, Multi-Entity Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning
  4. Cross-Domain Web Information Extraction at Pinterest

Benchmarks

  1. EFOkEFO_{k}-CQA: Towards Knowledge Graph Complex Query Answering beyond Set Operation
  2. Towards Better Benchmark Datasets for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion
  3. When Graph Meets Multimodal: Benchmarking and Meditating on Multimodal Attributed Graph Learning
  4. When Heterophily Meets Heterogeneity: Challenges and a New Large-Scale Graph Benchmark
  5. TrustGLM: Evaluating the Robustness of GraphLLMs Against Prompt, Text, and Structure Attacks

Tutorials

  1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Medicine and Healthcare [Link]

VLDB - Vol 18

Papers:

  1. Ranking Indicator Discovery from Very Large Knowledge Graphs [Paper]
  2. From Genesis to Maturity: Managing Knowledge Graph Ecosystems Through Life Cycles [Paper]
  3. eXpath: Explaining Knowledge Graph Link Prediction with Ontological Closed Path Rules [Paper]
  4. Towards Pattern-aware Data Augmentation for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion [Paper]
  5. Pistis: A Decentralized Knowledge Graph Platform Enabling Ownership-Preserving SPARQL Querying [Paper]
  6. HyperBlocker: Accelerating Rule-based Blocking in Entity Resolution using GPUs [Paper]
  7. OpenMEL: Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking Using Noise-Free Expanded Queries and Global Coherence [Paper]
  8. Searching and Detecting Structurally Similar Communities in Large Heterogeneous Information Networks [Paper]
  9. LEGO-GraphRAG: Modularizing Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Design Space Exploration [Paper]

Tutorials:

  1. Property Graph Standards: State of the Art & Open Challenges [Paper]
  2. When Entity/Relationship Models Meet Graph Databases [Link]
  3. Systems for Scalable Graph Analytics and Machine Learning: Trends and Methods [Paper]

Other interesting papers:

  1. VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (Industrial Track, Ant Group, TJU)
  2. GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB (Industrial Track, Huawei, SJU)
  3. SagaLLM: Context Management, Validation, and Transaction Guarantees for Multi-Agent LLM Planning (Industrial track, Stanford University, HTC DeepQ)
  4. TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions (Industrial Track, Neo4j, UCB)
  5. GraphAr: An Efficient Storage Scheme for Graph Data in Data Lakes [Paper]
  6. Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment [Paper]
  7. Synergetic Community Search over Large Multilayer Graphs [Paper]
  8. G-View: View Management for Graph Databases [Paper]
  9. Lighter-X: An Efficient and Plug-and-play Strategy for Graph-based Recommendation through Decoupled Propagation [Paper]
  10. Efficient Graph Data Access for Out-of-Memory GPU Streaming Graph Processing [Paper]
  11. GraphCSR: A Degree-Equalized CSR Format for Large-scale Graph Processing [Paper]