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Sun](https://github.com/sunzequn) and [Kaisheng Zeng](https://github.com/alpc43).\n\n## Leaderboard\n[https://paperswithcode.com/task/entity-alignment](https://paperswithcode.com/task/entity-alignment)\n\n## Conference papers (methods):\n\n1. **JE**: **\"A Joint Embedding Method for Entity Alignment of Knowledge Bases\".**\n*Yanchao Hao, Yuanzhe Zhang, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao.* (CCKS 2016) \\[[paper](http://ir.ia.ac.cn/bitstream/173211/20186/1/A%20Joint%20Embedding%20Method%20for%20Entity%20Alignment%20of%20Knowledge%20Bases.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **MTransE**: **\"Multilingual Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Cross-lingual Knowledge Alignment\".**\n*Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Mohan Yang, Carlo Zaniolo.* (IJCAI 2017) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0209.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/muhaochen/MTransE)\\]\n\n1. **JAPE**: **\"Cross-Lingual Entity Alignment via Joint Attribute-Preserving Embedding\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Chengkai Li.* (ISWC 2017) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05045.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/JAPE)\\]\n\n1. **IPTransE**: **\"Iterative Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embeddings\".**\n*Hao Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.* (IJCAI 2017) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0595.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/IEAJKE)\\]\n\n1. **BootEA**: **\"Bootstrapping Entity Alignment with Knowledge Graph Embedding\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Qingheng Zhang, Yuzhong Qu.* (IJCAI 2018) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0611.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/BootEA)\\]\n\n1. **KDCoE**: **\"Co-training Embeddings of Knowledge Graphs and Entity Descriptions for Cross-lingual Entity Alignment\".**\n*Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Kai-Wei Chang, Steven Skiena, Carlo Zaniolo.* (IJCAI 2018) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0556.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/muhaochen/MTransE-tf)\\]\n\n1. **NTAM**: **\"Non-translational Alignment for Multi-relational Networks\".**\n*Shengnan Li, Xin Li, Rui Ye, Mingzhong Wang, Haiping Su, Yingzi Ou.* (IJCAI 2018) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/0581.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **LinkNBed**: **\"Multi-Graph Representation Learning with Entity Linkage\".**\n*Rakshit Trivedi, Bunyamin Sisman, Jun Ma, Christos Faloutsos, Hongyuan Zha, Xin Luna Dong* (ACL 2018) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1024.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **GCN-Align**: **\"Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment via Graph Convolutional Networks\".**\n*Zhichun Wang, Qingsong Lv, Xiaohan Lan, Yu Zhang.* (EMNLP 2018) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1032)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/1049451037/GCN-Align)\\]\n\n1. **AttrE**: **\"Entity Alignment between Knowledge Graphs Using Attribute Embeddings\".**\n*Bayu D. Trsedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang.* (AAAI 2019) \\[[paper](http://www.ruizhang.info/publications/AAAI2019-Entity%20Alignment%20between%20Knowledge%20Graphs%20Using%20Attribute%20Embeddings.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://bitbucket.org/bayudt/kba/src)\\]\n\n1. **SEA**: **\"Semi-Supervised Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Embedding with Awareness of Degree Difference\".**\n*Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Robert Hoehndorf, Xiangliang Zhang.* (WWW 2019) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3313646)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **RSN4EA**: **\"Learning to Exploit Long-term Relational Dependencies in Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Lingbing Guo, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu.* (ICML 2019) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04914.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/RSN)\\]\n\n1. **MuGNN**: **\"Multi-Channel Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Yixin Cao, Zhiyuan Liu, Chengjiang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua.* (ACL 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1140)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/MuGNN)\\]\n\n1. **GMNN**: **\"Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment via Graph Matching Neural Network\".**\n*Kun Xu, Liwei Wang, Mo Yu, Yansong Feng, Yan Song, Zhiguo Wang, Dong Yu.* (ACL 2019) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.11605.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/syxu828/Crosslingula-KG-Matching)\\]\n\n1. **MultiKE**: **\"Multi-view Knowledge Graph Embedding for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Qingheng Zhang, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yuzhong Qu.* (IJCAI 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0754.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/MultiKE)\\]\n\n1. **RDGCN**: **\"Relation-Aware Entity Alignment for Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Rui Yan, Dongyan Zhao.* (IJCAI 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0733.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/RDGCN)\\]\n\n1. **OTEA**: **\"Improving Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Optimal Transport\".**\n*Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang.* (IJCAI 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0448.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **NAEA**: **\"Neighborhood-Aware Attentional Representation for Multilingual Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Qiannan Zhu, Xiaofei Zhou, Jia Wu, Jianlong Tan, Li Guo.* (IJCAI 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0269.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **AVR-GCN**: **\"A Vectorized Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-Relational Network Alignment\".**\n*Rui Ye, Xin Li, Yujie Fang, Hongyu Zang, Mingzhong Wang.* (IJCAI 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019//0574.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **TransEdge**: **\"TransEdge: Translating Relation-Contextualized Embeddings for Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Jiacheng Huang, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yuzhong Qu.* (ISWC 2019) \\[[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30793-6_35)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/TransEdge)\\]\n\n1. **KECG**: **\"Semi-supervised Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embedding Model and Cross-graph Model\".**\n*Chengjiang Li, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Jiaxin Shi, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua.* (EMNLP 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1274.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/THU-KEG/KECG)\\]\n\n1. **HGCN**: **\"Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao.* (EMNLP 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1023.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/HGCN-JE-JR)\\]\n\n1. **MMEA**: **\"Modeling Multi-mapping relations for Precise Cross-lingual Entity Alignment\".**\n*Xiaofei Shi, Yanghua Xiao.* (EMNLP 2019) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1075.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **HMAN**: **\"Aligning Cross-lingual Entities with Multi-Aspect Information\".**\n*Hsiu-Wei Yang, Yanyan Zou, Peng Shi, Wei Lu, Jimmy Lin, Xu Sun.* (EMNLP 2019) \\[[paper](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/YangHW_etal_EMNLP2019.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/h324yang/HMAN)\\]\n\n1. **AKE**: **\"Guiding Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Adversarial Knowledge Embedding\".**\n*Xixun Lin, Hong Yang, Jia Wu, Chuan Zhou, Bin Wang.* (ICDM 2019) \\[[paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8970718/)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/IIEdm/AKE)\\]\n\n1. **MRAEA**: **\"MRAEA: An Efficient and Robust Cross-lingual Entity Alignment Approach via Meta Relation Aware Representation\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Huimin Xu, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu.* (WSDM 2020) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3336191.3371804)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/MRAEA)\\]\n\n1. **AliNet**: **\"Knowledge Graph Alignment Network with Gated Multi-hop Neighborhood Aggregation\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Chengming Wang, Wei Hu, Muhao Chen, Jian Dai, Wei Zhang, Yuzhong Qu.* (AAAI 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08936.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/AliNet)\\]\n\n1. **\"Coordinated Reasoning for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment\".**\n*Kun Xu, Linfeng Song, Yansong Feng, Yan Song, Dong Yu.* (AAAI 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08728.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **COTSAE**: **\"COTSAE: CO-Training of Structure and Attribute Embeddings for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Kai Yang, Shaoqin Liu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang, Bing Xie.* (AAAI 2020) \\[[paper](http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/OM/articles/Yang_AAAI20.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/ykpku/COTSA)\\]\n\n1. **CEA**: **\"Collective Entity Alignment via Adaptive Features\".**\n*Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Jiuyang Tang, Xuemin Lin.* (ICDE 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.08404.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **CEAFF**: **\"Reinforcement Learning–based Collective Entity Alignment with Adaptive Features\".**\n*Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Jiuyang Tang, Xuemin Lin, Paul Groth.* (ACM Transactions on Information Systems) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3446428)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/DexterZeng/CEAFF)\\]\n\n1. **\"Deep Graph Matching Consensus\".**\n*Matthias Fey, Jan E. Lenssen, Christopher Morris, Jonathan Masci, Nils M. Kriege.* (ICLR 2020) \\[[paper](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HyeJf1HKvS)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **CG-MuAlign**: **\"Collective Multi-type Entity Alignment Between Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Qi Zhu, Hao Wei, Bunyamin Sisman, Da Zheng, Christos Faloutsos, Xin Luna Dong, Jiawei Han.* (WWW 2020) \\[[paper](https://assets.amazon.science/ff/7a/b96282984a0fbe5e31a8fcf68d17/scipub-1202.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/GentleZhu/CG-MuAlign)\\]\n\n1. **JarKA**: **\"JarKA: Modeling Attribute Interactions for Cross-lingual Knowledge Alignment\".**\n*Bo Chen, Jing Zhang, Xiaobin Tang, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li.* (PAKDD 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.13105.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/BoChen-Daniel/PAKDD-20-JarKA)\\]\n\n1. **NMN**: **\"Neighborhood Matching Network for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Yuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Dongyan Zhao.* (ACL 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05607.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/StephanieWyt/NMN)\\]\n\n1. **BERT-INT**: **\"BERT-INT: A BERT-based Interaction Model For Knowledge Graph Alignment\".**\n*Xiaobin Tang, Jing Zhang, Bo Chen, Yang Yang, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li.* (IJCAI 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/0439.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/kosugi11037/bert-int)\\]\n\n1. **SSP**: **\"Global Structure and Local Semantics-Preserved Embeddings for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Hao Nie, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Chi Man Wong, Qiang Chen, Suhui Wu, Wei Zhang.* (IJCAI 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/0506.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **DAT**: **\"Degree-Aware Alignment for Entities in Tail\".**\n*Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Wei Wang, Jiuyang Tang, Zhen Tan.* (SIGIR 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12132.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/DexterZeng/DAT)\\]\n\n1. **RREA**: **\"Relational Reflection Entity Alignment\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Huimin Xu, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (CIKM 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07962.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/RREA)\\]\n\n1. **REA**: **\"REA: Robust Cross-lingual Entity Alignment Between Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Guoxian Yu, Xiangliang Zhang.* (KDD 2020) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3394486.3403268)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/scpei/REA)\\]\n\n1. **HyperKA**: **\"Knowledge Association with Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Jian Dai, Wei Zhang.* (EMNLP 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.460.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/HyperKA)\\]\n\n1. **AttrGNN**: **\"Exploring and Evaluating Attributes, Values, and Structures for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Liangming Pan, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat-Seng Chua.* (EMNLP 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.515.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/thunlp/explore-and-evaluate)\\]\n\n1. **EPEA**: **\"Knowledge Graph Alignment with Entity-Pair Embedding\".**\n*Zhichun Wang, Jinjian Yang, Xiaoju Ye.* (EMNLP 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.130.pdf)\\]\n\n1. **\"Learning Short-Term Differences and Long-Term Dependencies for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Jia Chen, Zhixu Li, Pengpeng Zhao, An Liu, Lei Zhao, Zhigang Chen, Xiangliang Zhang.* (ISWC 2020) \\[[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-62419-4_6)\\]\n\n1. **RE-GCN**: **\"RE-GCN: Relation Enhanced Graph Convolutional Network for Entity Alignment in Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Jinzhu Yang, Wei Zhou, Lingwei Wei, Junyu Lin, Jizhong Han, and Songlin Hu.* (DASFAA 2020) \\[[paper](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-59416-9_26.pdf)\\]\n\n1. **\"Visual Pivoting for (Unsupervised) Entity Alignment\".**\n*Fangyu Liu, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Nigel Collier.* (AAAI 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13603.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/cambridgeltl/eva)\\]\n\n1. **DINGAL**: **\"Dynamic Knowledge Graph Alignment\".**\n*Yuchen Yan, Lihui Liu, Yikun Ban, Baoyu Jing, Hanghang Tong.* (AAAI 2021) \\[[paper](https://www.aaai.org/AAAI21Papers/AAAI-10116.YanY.pdf)\\]\n\n1. **RNM**: **\"Relation-Aware Neighborhood Matching Model for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Yao Zhu, Hongzhi Liu, Zhonghai Wu, Yingpeng Du.* (AAAI 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08128.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/Peter7Yao/RNM)\\]\n\n1. **\"Cross-lingual Entity Alignment with Incidental Supervision\".**\n*Muhao Chen, Weijia Shi, Ben Zhou, Dan Roth.* (EACL 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00171)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **\"Active Learning for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Max Berrendorf, Evgeniy Faerman, Volker Tresp.* (ECIR 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08943)\\]\n\n1. **\"Generalized Multi-Relational Graph Convolution Network\".**\n*Donghan Yu, Yiming Yang, Ruohong Zhang, Yuexin Wu.* (WWW 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07331.pdf)\\]\n\n1. **Dual-AMN**: **\"Boosting the Speed of Entity Alignment 10×: Dual Attention Matching Network with Normalized Hard Sample Mining\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (WWW 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.15452.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/Dual-AMN)\\]\n\n1. **\"Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Alignment by Probabilistic Reasoning and Semantic Embedding\".**\n*Zhiyuan Qi, Ziheng Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Xi Chen, Yuejia Xiang, Ningyu Zhang, Yefeng Zheng.* (IJCAI 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05596)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/qizhyuan/PRASE-Python)\\]\n\n1. **\"RAGA: Relation-aware Graph Attention Networks for Global Entity Alignment\".**\n*Renbo Zhu, Meng Ma, Ping Wang.* (PAKDD 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00791)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/zhurboo/RAGA)\\]\n\n1. **C4EA**: **\"Encoding the meaning triangle (object, entity, and concept) as the semantic foundation for entity alignment\".**\n*Kaisheng Zeng, Chengjiang Li, Yan Qi, Xin Lv, Lei Hou, Guozheng Peng, Juanzi Li, Ling Feng.* (WISE 2021) \\[[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90888-1_19)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n1. **PSR**: **\"Are Negative Samples Necessary in Entity Alignment? An Approach with High Performance, Scalability and Robustness\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (CIKM 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05278.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/PSR)\\]\n\n1. **RAC**: **\"Reinforced Active Entity Alignment\".**\n*Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Jiuyang Tang, Changjun Fan.* (CIKM 2021) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459637.3482472)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/DexterZeng/RAC)\\]\n\n1. **ERMC**: **\"Entity and Relation Matching Consensus for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Jinzhu Yang, Ding Wang, Wei Zhou, Wanhui Qian, Xin Wang, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu.* (CIKM 2021) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459637.3482338)\\]\n\n1. **SEU**: **\"From Alignment to Assignment: Frustratingly Simple Unsupervised Entity Alignment\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (EMNLP 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.02363.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/SEU)\\]\n\n1. **ActiveEA**: **\"ActiveEA: Active Learning for Neural Entity Alignment\".**\n*Bing Liu, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon, Wen Hua, Genghong Zhao.* (EMNLP 2021) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06474.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/UQ-Neusoft-Health-Data-Science/ActiveEA)\\]\n\n1. **EAA**: **\"Adversarial Attack against Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Alignment\".**\n*Zeru Zhang, Zijie Zhang, Yang Zhou, Lingfei Wu, Sixing Wu, Xiaoying Han, Dejing Dou, Tianshi Che, Da Yan.* (EMNLP 2021) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.432.pdf)\\]\n\n1. **TEA-GNN**: **\"Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Chengjin Xu, Fenglong Su, Jens Lehmann.* (EMNLP 2021) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.709.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/soledad921/TEA-GNN)\\]\n\n1. **EASY**: **\"Make It Easy: An Effective End-to-End Entity Alignment Framework\".**\n*Congcong Ge, Xiaoze Liu, Lu Chen, Baihua Zheng, Yunjun Gao.* (SIGIR 2021) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3404835.3462870)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/ZJU-DAILY/EASY)\\]\n\n1. **IMEA**: **\"Informed Multi-context Entity Alignment\".**\n*Kexuan Xin, Zequn Sun, Wen Hua, Wei Hu, Xiaofang Zhou.* (WSDM 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.00304.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/JadeXIN/IMEA)\\]\n\n1. **LargeEA**: **\"LargeEA: Aligning Entities for Large-scale Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Congcong Ge, Xiaoze Liu, Lu Chen, Baihua Zheng, Yunjun Gao.* (VLDB 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05211.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/ZJU-DBL/LargeEA)\\]\n\n1. **LIME**: **\"On Entity Alignment at Scale\".**\n*Weixin Zeng, Xiang Zhao, Xinyi Li, Jiuyang Tang, Wei Wang.* The VLDB Journal, 2022. \\[[paper](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00778-021-00703-3)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/DexterZeng/LIME)\\]\n\n1. **SelfKG**: **\"A Self-supervised Method for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Xiao Liu, Haoyun Hong, Xinghao Wang, Zeyi Chen, Evgeny Kharlamov, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang.* (WWW 2022). \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01044)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/THUDM/SelfKG)\\]\n\n1. **RePS**: **\"RePS: Relation, Position and Structure aware Entity Alignment\".**\n*Anil Surisetty, Deepak Chaurasiya, Nitish Kumar, Alok Singh, Gaurav Dhama, Aakarash Malhotra, Ankur Arora, Vikrant Dey.* (WWW 2022). \\[[paper](https://www2022.thewebconf.org/PaperFiles/159.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/Deepak-Work/RePS)\\]\n\n1. **TREA**: **\"Time-aware Entity Alignment using Temporal Relational Attention\".**\n*Chengjin Xu, Fenglong Su, Bo Xiong, Jens Lehmann.* (WWW 2022). \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485447.3511922)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n1. **UPLR**: **\"Uncertainty-aware Pseudo Label Refinery for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Jia Li, Dandan Song.* (WWW 2022). \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485447.3511926)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/Jia-Li2/UPLR/)\\]\n\n1. **DATTI**: **\"An Effective and Efficient Entity Alignment Decoding Algorithm via Third-Order Tensor Isomorphism\".**\n*Xin Mao, Meirong Ma, Hao Yuan, Jianchao Zhu, ZongYu Wang, Rui Xie, Wei Wu, Man Lan.* (ACL 2022). \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.405/)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/DATTI)\\]\n\n1. **RPR-RHGT**: **\"Entity Alignment with Reliable Path Reasoning and Relation-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Transformer\".**\n*Weishan Cai, Wenjun Ma, Jieyu Zhan, Yuncheng Jiang.* (IJCAI 2022). \\[[paper](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/0268.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/cwswork/RPR-RHGT)\\]\n\n1. **CycTEA**: **\"Ensemble Semi-supervised Entity Alignment via Cycle-teaching\".**\n*Kexuan Xin, Zequn Sun, Wen Hua, Bing Liu, Wei Hu, Jianfeng Qu, Xiaofang Zhou.* (AAAI 2022). \\[[paper](https://www.aaai.org/AAAI22Papers/AAAI-5065.XinK.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/JadeXIN/CycTEA)\\]\n\n1. **SDEA**: **\"Semantics Driven Embedding Learning for Effective Entity Alignment\".**\n*Ziyue Zhong, Meihui Zhang, Ju Fan, Chenxiao Dou.* (ICDE 2022). \\[[paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9835701)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/zhongziyue/SDEA)\\]\n\n1. **ClusterEA**: **\"ClusterEA: Scalable Entity Alignment with Stochastic Training and Normalized Mini-batch Similarities\".**\n*Yunjun Gao, Xiaoze Liu, Junyang Wu, Tianyi Li, Pengfei Wang, Lu Chen.* (KDD 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10312)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/joker-xii/ClusterEA)\\]\n\n1. **MSNEA**: **\"Multi-modal Siamese Network for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Liyi Chen, Zhi Li, Tong Xu, Han Wu, Zhefeng Wang, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Enhong Chen.* (KDD 2022) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3534678.3539244)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/liyichen-cly/MSNEA)\\]\n\n1. **NeoEA**: **\"Understanding and Improving Knowledge Graph Embedding for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Lingbing Guo, Mingyang Chen, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Qiang Zhang, Huajun Chen.* (ICML 2022) \\[[paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/guo22i/guo22i.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/guolingbing/NeoEA)\\]\n\n1. **ContEA**: **\"Facing Changes: Continual Entity Alignment for Growing Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Yuxin Wang, Yuanning Cui, Wenqiang Liu, Zequn Sun, Yiqiao Jiang, Kexin Han, Wei Hu.* (ISWC 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11436)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/ContEA)\\]\n\n1. **LargeGNN**: **\"Large-scale Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Merging, Partitioning and Embedding\".**\n*Kexuan Xin, Zequn Sun, Wen Hua, Wei Hu, Jianfeng Qu, Xiaofang Zhou.* (CIKM 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11125)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/JadeXIN/LargeGNN)\\]\n\n1. **DivEA**: **\"High-quality Task Division for Large-scale Entity Alignment\".**\n*Bing Liu, Wen Hua, Guido Zuccon, Genghong Zhao, Xia Zhang.* (CIKM 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.10366.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/uqbingliu/DivEA)\\]\n\n1. **ICLEA**: **\"Interactive Contrastive Learning for Self-supervised Entity Alignment\".** \n*Kaisheng Zeng, Zhenhao Dong, Lei Hou, Yixin Cao, Minghao Hu, Jifan Yu, Xin Lv, Juanzi Li, Ling Feng.* (CIKM 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.06225.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/THU-KEG/ICLEA)\\]\n\n1. **RoadEA**: **\"Revisiting Embedding-based Entity Alignment: A Robust and Adaptive Method\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Yuxin Wang, Yuzhong Qu.* (TKDE 2022) \\[[paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9865204/)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/RoadEA)\\]\n\n1. **MCLEA**: **\"Multi-modal Contrastive Representation Learning for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Zhenxi Lin, Ziheng Zhang, Meng Wang, Yinghui Shi, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng.* (COLING 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.00891.pdf)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n1. **LightEA**: **\"LightEA: A Scalable, Robust, and Interpretable Entity Alignment Framework via Three-view Label Propagation\".**\n*Xin Mao, Wenting Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan.* (EMNLP 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10436.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/MaoXinn/LightEA/)\\]\n\n1. **EMEA**: **\"Guiding Neural Entity Alignment with Compatibility\".**\n*Bing Liu, Harrisen Scells, Wen Hua, Guido Zuccon, Genghong Zhao, Xia Zhang.* (EMNLP 2022) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.32.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/uqbingliu/EMEA)\\]\n\n\n1. **DualMatch**: **\"Unsupervised Entity Alignment for Temporal Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Xiaoze Liu, Junyang Wu, Tianyi Li, Lu Chen, Yunjun Gao.* (WWW 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00796)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/ZJU-DAILY/DualMatch)\\]\n\n1. **STEA**: **\"Dependency-aware Self-training for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Bing Liu, Tiancheng Lan, Wen Hua, Guido Zuccon.* (WSDM 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16101)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/uqbingliu/STEA)\\]\n\n1. **\"Weakly Supervised Entity Alignment with Positional Inspiration\".**\n*Wei Tang,Fenglong Su,Haifeng Sun,Qi Qi,Jingyu Wang,Shimin Tao,Hao Yang.* (WSDM 2023) \\[[paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3539597.3570394)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/OceanTangWei/PEEA)\\]\n\n1. **TEA**: **\"From Alignment to Entailment: A Unified Textual Entailment Framework for Entity Alignment\".**\n*Yu Zhao, Yike Wu, Xiangrui Cai, Ying Zhang, Haiwei Zhang, Xiaojie Yuan.* (ACL-findings 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11501)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/OreOZhao/TEA)\\]\n\n1. **FGWEA**: **\"A Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Framework for Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment\".**\n*Jianheng Tang, Kangfei Zhao, Jia Li.* (ACL-findings 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06574)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/squareRoot3/FusedGW-Entity-Alignment)\\]\n\n1. **\"MEAformer: Multi-modal Entity Alignment Transformer for Meta Modality Hybrid\".**\n*Zhuo Chen, Jiaoyan Chen, Wen Zhang, Lingbing Guo, Yin Fang, Yufeng Huang, Yichi Zhang, Yuxia Geng, Jeff Z. Pan, Wenting Song, Huajun Chen.* (ACM MM 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14454)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/zjukg/MEAformer)\\]\n\n1. **UMAEA**: **\"Rethinking Uncertainly Missing and Ambiguous Visual Modality in Multi-Modal Entity Alignment\".**\n*Zhuo Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yin Fang, Yichi Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Jeff Z. Pan, Yangning Li, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang.* (ISWC 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16210)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/zjukg/UMAEA)\\]\n\n## Dangling-Aware Entity Alignment\nThis section covers the new problem setting of entity alignment with dangling cases. ([Muhao](https://github.com/muhaochen): Proposed, and may be reorganized)\n1. **\"Knowing the No-match: Entity Alignment with Dangling Cases\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Muhao Chen, Wei Hu.* (ACL 2021) \\[[paper](https://sunzequn.github.io/articles/acl2021_dbp2.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/OpenEA)\\]\n\n1. **\"\"Dangling-Aware Entity Alignment with Mixed High-Order Proximities.**\n*Juncheng Liu, Zequn Sun, Bryan Hooi, Yiwei Wang, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Muhao Chen.* (NAACL-findings 2022) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.88.pdf)\\]  \n\n## Cross-lingual Knowledge Graph Completion  \nThis section includes the cross-lingual KGC that is extended from the original EA problem. ([Muhao](https://github.com/muhaochen): Proposed, and may be reorganized)\n\n1. **\"Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion via Ensemble Knowledge Transfer\".**\n*Xuelu Chen, Muhao Chen, Changjun Fan, Ankith Uppunda, Yizhou Sun, Carlo Zaniolo.* (Findings of EMNLP 2020) \\[[paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.findings-emnlp.290.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/stasl0217/KEnS)\\]\n\n1. **\"Prix-LM: Pretraining for Multilingual Knowledge Base Construction\".**\n*Wenxuan Zhou, Fangyu Liu, Ivan Vulić, Nigel Collier, Muhao Chen.* (ACL 2022) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.371.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/luka-group/prix-lm)\\]\n\n1. **\"Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion with Self-Supervised Adaptive Graph Alignment\".**\n*Zijie Huang, Zheng Li, Haoming Jiang, Tianyu Cao, Hanqing Lu, Bing Yin, Karthik Subbian, Yizhou Sun, and Wei Wang.* (ACL 2022) \\[[paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.36.pdf)\\]\n\n## Surveys and Benchmarking Studies\n\n1. **OpenEA**: **\"A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs\".**\n*Zequn Sun, Qingheng Zhang, Wei Hu, Chengming Wang, Muhao Chen, Farahnaz Akrami, Chengkai Li.* PVLDB, vol. 13. ACM 2020 \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.07743.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/nju-websoft/OpenEA)\\]\n\n1. **\"An Experimental Study of State-of-the-Art Entity Alignment Approaches\".**\n*Xiang Zhao, Weixin Zeng, Jiuyang Tang, Wei Wang, Fabian Suchanek.* TKDE, 2020 \\[[paper](https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2020.3018741)\\]\n\n1. **\"Knowledge graph entity alignment with graph convolutional networks: Lessons learned\".**\n*Max Berrendorf, Evgeniy Faerman, Valentyn Melnychuk, Volker Tresp, Thomas Seidl.* (ECIR 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08342)\\]\n\n1. **\"An Industry Evaluation of Embedding-based Entity Alignment\".**\n*Ziheng Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Xi Chen, Hualuo Liu, Yuejia Xiang, Bo Liu, Yefeng Zheng.* (COLING 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11522.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/ZihengZZH/industry-eval-EA)\\]\n\n1. **\"A comprehensive survey of entity alignment for knowledge graphs\".**\n*Kaisheng Zeng, Chengjiang Li, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Ling Feng.* AI Open, vol. 2, Elsevier 2021 \\[[paper](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666651021000036)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/THU-KEG/EAkit)\\]\n\n1. **\"Rethinking Uncertainly Missing and Ambiguous Visual Modality in Multi-Modal Entity Alignment\".**\n*Zhuo Chen, Lingbing Guo, Yin Fang, Yichi Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Jeff Z. Pan, Yangning Li, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang.* (ISWC 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16210)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/zjukg/UMAEA)\\]\n\n## Preprints\n\nThis section contains selected promising preprints.\n\n1. **KAGAN**: **\"Weakly-supervised Knowledge Graph Alignment with Adversarial Learning\".**\n*Meng Qu, Jian Tang, Yoshua Bengio.* (arXiv 2019) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03179.pdf)\\]\\[code\\]\n\n1. **\"A Critical Assessment of State-of-the-Art in Entity Alignment\".**\n*Max Berrendorf, Ludwig Wacker, Evgeniy Faerman.* (arXiv 2020) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.16314.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/mberr/ea-sota-comparison)\\]\n\n1. **\"Training Free Graph Neural Networks For Graph Matching\".** \n*Zhiyuan Liu, Yixin Cao, Fuli Feng, Xiang Wang, Xindi Shang, Jie Tang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua.* (arXiv 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05349.pdf)\\]\\[[code](https://github.com/acharkq/Training-Free-Graph-Matching)\\]\n\n1. **\"Jointly Learning Knowledge Embedding and Neighborhood Consensus with Relational Knowledge Distillation for Entity Alignment\".** \n*Xinhang Li, Yong Zhang, Chunxiao Xing.* (arXiv 2022) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11249.pdf)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n1. **\"Revisit and Outstrip Entity Alignment: A Perspective of Generative Models\".** \n*Lingbing Guo, Zhuo Chen, Jiaoyan Chen, Huajun Chen.* (arXiv 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14651)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n1. **\"Universal Multi-modal Entity Alignment via Iteratively Fusing Modality Similarity Paths\".** \n*Bolin Zhu, Xiaoze Liu, Xin Mao, Zhuo Chen, Lingbing Guo, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang.* (arXiv 2023) \\[[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05364)\\]\\[[code]()\\]\n\n## Tools\n\n1. **OpenEA** \\[[repo](https://github.com/nju-websoft/OpenEA)\\]: a TensorFlow-based EA framework.\n\n1. **EAkit** \\[[repo](https://github.com/THU-KEG/EAkit)\\]: a PyTorch-based EA framework.\n\n\n## Comments\n\nIf you find any errors in the above information, please let us know in [Issues](https://github.com/THU-KEG/Entity_Alignment_Papers/issues). 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