Title
HCFRec: Hash Collaborative Filtering via Normalized Flow with Structural Consensus for Efficient Recommendation.
Abstract
The ever-increasing data scale of user-item interactions makes it challenging for an effective and efficient recommender system. Recently, hash-based collaborative filtering (Hash-CF) approaches employ efficient Hamming distance of learned binary representations of users and items to accelerate recommendations. However, Hash-CF often faces two challenging problems, i.e., optimization on discrete representations and preserving semantic information in learned representations. To address the above two challenges, we propose HCFRec, a novel Hash-CF approach for effective and efficient recommendations. Specifically, HCFRec not only innovatively introduces normalized flow to learn the optimal hash code by efficiently fit a proposed approximate mixture multivariate normal distribution, a continuous but approximately discrete distribution, but also deploys a cluster consistency preserving mechanism to preserve the semantic structure in representations for more accurate recommendations. Extensive experiments conducted on six real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our HCFRec compared to the state-of-art methods in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.24963/ijcai.2022/315
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Data Mining: Recommender Systems
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fan Wang100.34
Weiming Liu200.34
Chaochao Chen311519.04
Mengying Zhu401.01
Xiaolin Zheng530036.99