CID-TKG: Collaborative Historical Invariance and Evolutionary Dynamics Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 9 Mar 2026] CID-TKG: Collaborative Historical Invariance and Evolutionary Dynamics Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Shuai-Long Lei, Xiaobin Zhu, Jiarui Liang, Guoxi Sun, Zhiyu Fang, Xu-Cheng Yin Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning aims to infer future facts at unseen timestamps from temporally evolving entities and relations. Despite recent progress, existing approaches still suffer from inherent limitations due to their inductive biases, as they predominantly rely on time-invariant or weakly time-dependent structures and overlook the evolutionary dynamics. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel collaborative learning framework for TKGR (dubbed CID-TKG) that integrates evolutionary dynamics and historical invariance semantics as an effective inductive bias for reasoning. Specifically, CID-TKG constructs a historical invariance graph to capture long-term structural regularities and an evolutionary dynamics graph to model short-term temporal transitions. Dedicated encoders are then employed to learn representations from each structure. To alleviate semantic discrepancies across the two structures, we decompose relations into view-specific representations and align view-specific query representations via a contrastive objective, which promotes cross-view consistency while suppressing view-specific noise. Extensive experiments verify that our CID-TKG achieves state-of-the-art performance under extrapolation settings. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2604.09600 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2604.09600v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.09600 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Shuailong Lei Second [view email] [v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2026 03:28:57 UTC (1,432 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.CL References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)