In plain words: A new graph links 1.17 million companies through 51 million weighted edges covering 15 kinds of relationships, so computers can judge how alike two firms are. It is the first such graph from an investment platform, with 11 methods tested on three labeled tasks.
Abstract · CompanyKG: A Large-Scale Heterogeneous Graph for Company Similarity Quantification
In the investment industry, it is often essential to carry out fine-grained company similarity quantification for a range of purposes, including market mapping, competitor analysis, and mergers and acquisitions. We propose and publish a knowledge graph, named CompanyKG, to represent and learn diverse company features and relations. Specifically, 1.17 million companies are represented as nodes enriched with company description embeddings; and 15 different inter-company relations result in 51.06 million weighted edges. To enable a comprehensive assessment of methods for company similarity quantification, we have devised and compiled three evaluation tasks with annotated test sets: similarity prediction, competitor retrieval and similarity ranking. We present extensive benchmarking results for 11 reproducible predictive methods categorized into three groups: node-only, edge-only, and node+edge. To the best of our knowledge, CompanyKG is the first large-scale heterogeneous graph dataset originating from a real-world investment platform, tailored for quantifying inter-company similarity.
Lele Cao, Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, Mark Granroth-Wilding, Richard Anselmo Stahl, Andrew McCornack, Armin Catovic, Dhiana Deva Cavacanti Rocha
arXiv:2306.10649 · cs.AI, cs.CE, cs.DB, cs.LG · submitted Jun 18, 2023 · updated Jun 9, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · CompanyKG (version 1.x). Published by IEEE Transactions on Big Data (12 pages, 10 figures and 2 tables) + Appendix (9 pages, 1 figures and 4 tables). Code: https://github.com/EQTPartners/CompanyKG ; Data: https://zenodo.org/record/8010239
Included in our submission is a free dataset, https://zenodo.org/record/8010239, the first of its kind at this scale, consisting of 1,169,931 nodes and 50,815,503 undirected edges, with each node representing a real-world company and each edge signifying a relationship between the connected pair of companies.
We also release the full source code for reproducibility, https://github.com/EQTPartners/CompanyKG