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#1 Is Complex Query Answering Really Complex? [PDF4] [Copy] [Kimi3] [REL]

Authors: Cosimo Gregucci, Bo Xiong, Daniel Hernández, Lorenzo Loconte, Pasquale Minervini, Steffen Staab, Antonio Vergari

Complex query answering (CQA) on knowledge graphs (KGs) is gaining momentum as a challenging reasoning task.In this paper, we show that the current benchmarks for CQA might not be as *complex* as we think, as the way they are built distorts our perception of progress in this field.For example, we find that in these benchmarks most queries (up to 98% for some query types) can be reduced to simpler problems, e.g., link prediction, where only one link needs to be predicted.The performance of state-of-the-art CQA models decreses significantly when such models are evaluated on queries that cannot be reduced to easier types.Thus, we propose a set of more challenging benchmarks composed of queries that *require* models to reason over multiple hops and better reflect the construction of real-world KGs.In a systematic empirical investigation, the new benchmarks show that current methods leave much to be desired from current CQA methods.

Subject: ICML.2025 - Spotlight