Abstract:Knowledge graph completion (KGC) models require inductive ability to generalize to new entities as the knowledge graph expands. However, current approaches understand entities only from a local perspective by aggregating neighboring information, failing to capture valuable interconnections between entities across different views. This study argues that global and sequential perspectives are essential for understanding entities beyond the local view by enabling interaction between disconnected and distant entity pairs. More importantly, it emphasizes that the aggregated information must be complementary across different views to avoid redundancy. Therefore, a multi-view framework with the differentiation mechanism is proposed for inductive KGC, aimed at learning complementary entity representations from various perspectives. Specifically, in addition to aggregating neighboring information to obtain the entity’s local representation through R-GCN, an attention-based differentiation mechanism is employed to aggregate complementary information from semantically related entities and entity-related paths, thus obtaining global and sequential representations of the entities. Finally, these representations are fused and used to score the triples. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in the inductive setting. Moreover, it retains competitive performance in the transductive setting.