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Most Influential ICML 2011 Paper · 2026-03 edition

A Three-Way Model For Collective Learning On Multi-Relational Data

Maximilian Nickel; Volker Tresp; Hans-Peter Kriegel

Venue
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011
Recognition
Most Influential ICML 2011 Paper (Rank No. 3)
Edition
2026-03
Impact factor
9
Certificate ID
ef61f389e3ae07d5

Abstract

Relational learning is becoming increasingly important in many areas of application. Here, we present a novel approach to relational learning based on the factorization of a three-way tensor. We show that unlike other tensor approaches, our method is able to perform collective learning via the latent components of the model and provide an efficient algorithm to compute the factorization. We substantiate our theoretical considerations regarding the collective learning capabilities of our model by the means of experiments on both a new dataset and a dataset commonly used in entity resolution. Furthermore, we show on common benchmark datasets that our approach achieves better or on-par results, if compared to current state-of-the-art relational learning solutions, while it is significantly faster to compute.

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