Peng He
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2026
Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Yuxiang Cai | Run Lin | Guanyu Zhou | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Yuxiang Cai | Run Lin | Guanyu Zhou | Qiao Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) reasoning seeks to predict future missing facts from historical evidence. While diffusion models (DM) have recently gained attention for their ability to capture complex predictive distributions, two gaps remain: (i) the generative path is conditioned only on positive evidence, overlooking informative negative context, and (ii) training objectives are dominated by cross-entropy ranking, which improves candidate ordering but provides little supervision over the calibration of the denoised embedding. To bridge this gap, we introduce Negative-Aware Diffusion model for TKG Extrapolation (NADEx). Specifically, NADEx encodes subject-centric histories of entities, relations and temporal intervals into sequential embeddings. NADEx perturbs the query object in the forward process and reconstructs it in reverse with a Transformer denoiser conditioned on the temporal-relational context. We further derive a cosine-alignment regularizer derived from batch-wise negative prototypes, which tightens the decision boundary against implausible candidates. Comprehensive experiments on four public TKG benchmarks demonstrate that NADEx delivers state-of-the-art performance.
Denoising the Future: Context-Aware Spectral Diffusion for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Run Lin | Peiyuan Jiang | Yifan Wang | Qiao Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yanglei Gan | Peng He | Run Lin | Peiyuan Jiang | Yifan Wang | Qiao Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) extrapolation seeks to infer future facts from time-varying relational histories. Recent diffusion-based approaches improve uncertainty modeling through generative denoising, but their aggregated conditioning on subject histories may insufficiently distinguish query-specific evidence from non-salient historical facts, thereby diluting target-discriminative signals. To bridge this gap, we propose **FreqDiff**, a **Freq**uency-aware **Diff**usion framework for TKG extrapolation. Specifically, FreqDiff formulates future object prediction as query-slot denoising and develops a dual-stream denoiser that integrates temporal dependency modeling with context-aware spectral calibration. The spectral branch synthesizes history-conditioned filters from learnable bases to adaptively re-calibrate denoising representations, while a frequency-domain regularizer is proposed to align the denoised target with the gold object in spectral space. Experiments on four public TKG benchmarks demonstrate that FreqDiff achieves state-of-the-art performance.