Towards Conflict-aware Selective Knowledge Unlearning for Continual Few-shot Knowledge Graph Completion
Abstract
Few-shot knowledge graph completion (FKGC) aims to enhance knowledge reasoning for newly emerging relations using only a limited number of supporting triples. Given the inherent growth and evolution of knowledge graphs (KGs), FKGC faces greater challenges in continual learning (CL) scenarios, as models tend to rely more heavily on historical knowledge in few-shot settings. Existing studies have mainly focused on preserving old knowledge to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. However, these strategies often overlook that not all knowledge is worth retaining. Some prior knowledge may conflict with newly acquired knowledge, either structurally or semantically, distorting entity representations and relation patterns and weakening few-shot inference for new relations. To bridge this research gap, we propose a novel FKGC framework named CSKU, which achieves dynamic knowledge adaptation by selectively unlearning structural and semantic conflicts. Specifically, to preserve entity representation consistency, we design a graph-structured dynamic progressive unlearning mechanism that adaptively mitigates structural conflicts during training. Meanwhile, we introduce a semantic-guided selective unlearning mechanism that dynamically attenuates the impact of conflicting relations. Experimental results on multiple real-world FKGC datasets demonstrate that CSKU significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both forgetting mitigation and few-shot completion, validating the effectiveness of the proposed selective knowledge unlearning strategy. Our code and datasets are publicly available. https://anonymous.4open.science/r/CSKU.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Xiaolong Jin 0001 | 79 | 100 Few-shot Link Prediction on Hyper-relational Facts (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Inductive Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Look Globally and Reason: Two-stage Path Reasoning over Sparse Knowledge Graphs (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 2 | Ben Liu 0002 | 75 | 100 Historical facts learning from Long-Short Terms with Language Model for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Neighboring relation enhanced inductive knowledge graph link prediction via meta-learning (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Boosting Pre-trained Language Models for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Joint Structure and Recurring Patterns (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 3 | Jiapu Wang | 64 | 100 Multi-Concept Representation Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Multi-Level Interaction Based Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 TDN: Triplet Distributor Network for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Xiaoxi Li 0005 | 30 |
Area-chair candidates (2)
| Xiaoxi Li 0005 assigned | 30 | 15 papers | |
| Yankai Chen 0001 | 29 | 6 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 1 | Xiaolong Jin 0001 assigned | 79 | 3 | 100 Few-shot Link Prediction on Hyper-relational Facts (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Inductive Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 2 | Ben Liu 0002 assigned | 75 | 3 | 100 Historical facts learning from Long-Short Terms with Language Model for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Neighboring relation enhanced inductive knowledge graph link prediction via meta-learning (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 3 | Jiapu Wang assigned | 64 | 3 | 100 Multi-Concept Representation Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Multi-Level Interaction Based Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 4 | Xinying Qian | 56 | 3 | 100 Few-shot temporal knowledge graph completion based on query-adaptive Mamba-enhanced temporal relation learning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Contrast then Memorize: Semantic Neighbor Retrieval-Enhanced Inductive Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 5 | Tianzhe Zhao | 55 | 3 | 100 Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and Analysis (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 SAGE: Scale-Aware Gradual Evolution for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 6 | Xiangyu Ke | 50 | 3 | 100 Effective and Efficient Community Search with Graph Embeddings (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Scalable Community Search over Large-scale Graphs based on Graph Transformer (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 7 | Fu Zhang 0001 | 50 | 3 | 100 Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Multi-scale Capsule Network (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 A self-supervised method for learning path-augmented knowledge graph embedding (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 8 | Yuzhong Qu | 49 | 3 | 100 Relevance Search over Schema-Rich Knowledge Graphs (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Diversified and Verbalized Result Summarization for Semantic Association Search (2018) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 9 | Qinggang Zhang | 48 | 3 | 100 Logical Reasoning with Relation Network for Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Contrastive Knowledge Graph Error Detection (2022) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 10 | Yu Gu 0016 | 47 | 3 | 100 Relevance Search over Schema-Rich Knowledge Graphs (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 TRAVERS: A Diversity-Based Dynamic Approach to Iterative Relevance Search over Knowledge Graphs (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 11 | Armin Toroghi | 45 | 3 | 64 LogicRec: Recommendation with Users' Logical Requirements (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 63 Bayesian Knowledge-driven Critiquing with Indirect Evidence (2023) Conversational Recommendation Systems |
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| 12 | Xuhui Sui | 43 | 3 | 100 Few-shot temporal knowledge graph completion based on query-adaptive Mamba-enhanced temporal relation learning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Dark Side of Modalities: Reinforced Multimodal Distillation for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 13 | Jingwei Cheng | 40 | 3 | 100 Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Multi-scale Capsule Network (2019) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 A self-supervised method for learning path-augmented knowledge graph embedding (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 14 | Jing Zhu 0005 | 39 | 3 | 59 NegatER: Unsupervised Discovery of Negatives in Commonsense Knowledge Bases (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 57 LinkGPT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Link Prediction in Text-Attributed Graphs (2025) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 15 | Xingyu Tan 0001 | 37 | 3 | 42 PRoH: Dynamic Planning and Reasoning over Knowledge Hypergraphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2026) Multimodal and Graph RAG 41 Paths-over-Graph: Knowledge Graph Empowered Large Language Model Reasoning (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning |
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| 16 | Bo Wang 0069 | 36 | 3 | 100 Structure-Augmented Text Representation Learning for Efficient Knowledge Graph Completion (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 100 Siamese Pre-Trained Transformer Encoder for Knowledge Base Completion (2021) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 17 | Lianghao Xia | 35 | 3 | 69 Knowledge Graph Self-Supervised Rationalization for Recommendation (2023) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 62 DiffKG: Knowledge Graph Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion |
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| 18 | Yixin Liu 0001 | 35 | 3 | 40 SpecG: A Spectral-Based Framework for Effective Graph Pretraining and Knowledge Transfer (2025) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models 38 Noise-Resilient Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning via Multi-Hop Feature Quality Estimation (2024) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 19 | Dongxiao He | 35 | 3 | 44 Text-Rich Graph Neural Networks With Subjective-Objective Semantic Modeling (2024) Graph Learning for Text-Attributed and Heterogeneous Networks 44 Embedding text-rich graph neural networks with sequence and topical semantic structures (2023) Graph Learning for Text-Attributed and Heterogeneous Networks |
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| 20 | Jinheon Baek | 34 | 3 | 72 Learning to Extrapolate Knowledge: Transductive Few-shot Out-of-Graph Link Prediction (2020) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 38 Accurate Learning of Graph Representations with Graph Multiset Pooling (2021) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 21 | Farzad Shami | 33 | 3 | 45 Benchmarking Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Validation (2026) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning 45 Fact Verification in Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning |
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| 22 | Wenyu Huang | 33 | 3 | 40 Prompting large language models with knowledge graphs for question answering involving long-tail facts (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning 39 Masking in Multi-hop QA: An Analysis of How Language Models Perform with Context Permutation (2025) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA |
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| 23 | Xubin Ren | 32 | 3 | 40 A Survey of Large Language Models for Graphs (2024) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models 38 How Expressive are Graph Neural Networks in Recommendation? (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 24 | Chen Wang 0052 | 32 | 3 | 64 Knowledge Graph Context-Enhanced Diversified Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 40 Instruction-based Hypergraph Pretraining (2024) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models |
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| 25 | Xiaolong Liu 0012 | 32 | 3 | 64 Knowledge Graph Context-Enhanced Diversified Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 40 KGARevion: An AI Agent for Knowledge-Intensive Biomedical QA (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning |
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| 26 | Wonduk Seo | 31 | 3 | 41 Question-to-Knowledge (Q2K): Multi-Agent Generation of Inspectable Facts for Product Mapping (2025) Entity Linking and Alignment 29 Automated Visualization Code Synthesis via Multi-path Reasoning and Feedback-Driven Optimizations (2026) Reasoning Evaluation and Benchmarks |
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| 27 | Xinyu Ma 0001 | 31 | 3 | 48 Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLM-based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Derived Knowledge Infusion 37 Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents (2023) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking |
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| 28 | Jurek Leonhardt | 31 | 3 | 39 Data Augmentation for Sample Efficient and Robust Document Ranking (2024) Ranking Distillation and Adaptation 38 Node Representation Learning for Directed Graphs (2019) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning |
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| 29 | Mingdai Yang | 31 | 3 | 66 Knowledge Graph Context-Enhanced Diversified Recommendation (2024) Knowledge Graph Embedding and Completion 40 Instruction-based Hypergraph Pretraining (2024) Graph Pretraining and Foundation Models |
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| 30 | Jing Liu 0022 | 31 | 3 | 37 RocketQAv2: A Joint Training Method for Dense Passage Retrieval and Passage Re-ranking (2021) Dense Bi-Encoder Training and Representation Learning 36 A Hierarchical Entity-Based Approach to Structuralize User Generated Content in Social Media: A Case of Yahoo! Answers (2013) Domain-Specific and Structured Retrieval |