This repository contains code to run the experiments described in:

Scientific Language Models for Biomedical Knowledge Base Completion: An Empirical Study
Rahul Nadkarni, David Wadden, Iz Beltagy, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Tom Hope
Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) 2021

The environment.yml file contains all of the necessary packages to use this code. We recommend using Anaconda/Miniconda to set up an environment, which you can do with the command

conda-env create -f environment.yml

The edge splits we used for our experiments can be downloaded using the following links:

Each of these filees should be placed in the subgraph directory before running any of the experiment scripts. Please see the README.md file in the subgraph directory for more information on the edge split files. If you would like to recreate the edge splits yourself or construct new edge splits, use the scripts titled script/create_*_dataset.py.

The links below can be used to download a selection of the trained models. We provide the model parameters for KG-PubMedBERT fine-tuned with the multi-task loss on each dataset.

Once downloaded, the model can be loaded from the src/lm directory using the following code:

import torch
from argparse import Namespace
from model import KGBERT

dataset = # specify the dataset name here
nrelations = {'repodb' : 1, 'hetionet' : 4, 'msi' : 6}

model_name = 'microsoft/BiomedNLP-PubMedBERT-base-uncased-abstract'
args = Namespace(model_name=model_name,
                 link_prediction=True,
                 relation_prediction=True,
                 nrelation=nrelations[dataset],
                 relevance_ranking=True)
model = KGBERT(args)

state_dict = torch.load(f'kg-pubmedbert-multitask-{dataset}.pt')
model.load_state_dict(state_dict)

The files that contain entity names and descriptions for all of the datasets can be found in data/processed directory. If you would like to recreate these files yourself, you will need to use the scripts for each dataset found in data/script.

The main training script for the LMs src/lm/run.py can take in pre-tokenized entity names and descriptions as input, and several of the training scripts in script/training are set up to do so. If you would like to pre-tokenize text before fine-tuning, follow the instructions in script/pretokenize.py. You can also pass in one of the .tsv files found in data/processed for the argument --info_filename instead of a file with pre-tokenized text.

All of the scripts for training models can be found in the src directory. The script for training all KGE models is src/kge/run.py, while the script for training LMs is src/lm/run.py. Our code for training KGE models is heavily based on this code from the Open Graph Benchmark Github repository. Examples of how to use each of these scripts, including training with Slurm, can be found in the script/training directory. This directory includes all of the scripts we used to run the experiments for the results in the paper.