Information networks fusion based on multi-task coordination

Information networks provide a powerful representation of entities and the relationships between them. Information networks fusion is a technique for information fusion that jointly reasons about entities, links and relations in the presence of various sources. However, existing methods for information networks fusion tend to rely on a single task which might not get enough evidence for reasoning. In order to solve this issue, in this paper, we present a novel model called MC-INFM (information networks fusion model based on multi-task coordination). Different from traditional models, MC-INFM casts the fusion problem as a probabilistic inference problem, and collectively performs multiple tasks (including entity resolution, link prediction and relation matching) to infer the final result of fusion. First, we define the intra-features and the inter-features respectively and model them as factor graphs, which can provide abundant evidence to infer. Then, we use conditional random field (CRF) to learn the weight of each feature and infer the results of these tasks simultaneously by performing the maximum probabilistic inference. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model.