Title
Attentional Social Recommendation System with Graph Convolutional Network
Abstract
As an effective deep representation learning technique for graph, graph convolutional network (GCN) has recently been widely applied to obtain better embedding of vertex. The existing studies have successfully explored user-item interaction via GCN for recommendation task and proved its effectiveness. We argue that a significant limitation of these methods is that social relation, which has been proven to impose positive effects for recommendation in many loss optimization models, has received relatively little scrutiny in GCN. Thus, the resultant embeddings are insufficient to model the potential social propagation effect. In our work, we propose to obtain embeddings by using the neighborhood propagation mechanism on two coupled graph neural networks, i.e., user-item interaction graph and social relation graph, which is capable of capturing the interplay between the item taste of user and user connection. In particular, to address the challenge that different factors on neighborhood propagation process make different contributions for the embedding, we develop a new social recommendation framework with hierarchical attention(i.e., neighbor-level and graph-level attention) Attentional Social Recommendation system (ASR). This allows much flexibility for adaptively acquiring relative importance for different factors. Extensive experiment on two real-world datasets not only show the superior performance of our proposed model over the baselines, but also demonstrate the effectiveness of simultaneous neighborhood propagation on two graphs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9534075
2021 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
social relation, recommender system, attentional mechanism, graph convolutional network
Conference
2161-4393
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanbin Jiang122.43
Huifang Ma229029.69
Yuhang Liu312.05
Zhixin Li41219.62