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Recommender systems (RecSys) play a vital role in online platforms, offering users personalized suggestions amidst vast information. Graph contrastive learning aims to learn from high-order collaborative filtering signals with unsupervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a promising technique for improving recommender systems, addressing the challenge of data sparsity by using self-supervised signals from raw data. Integration of CL with graph convolutional network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Chaejeong Lee , Sung-Bae Cho , Dongha Lee , Noseong Park

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), especially message-passing-based models, have become prominent in top-k recommendation tasks, outperforming matrix factorization models due to their ability to efficiently aggregate information from a broader…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yannis Karmim , Elias Ramzi , Raphaël Fournier-S'niehotta , Nicolas Thome

Recently, graph collaborative filtering methods have been proposed as an effective recommendation approach, which can capture users' preference over items by modeling the user-item interaction graphs. In order to reduce the influence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Zihan Lin , Changxin Tian , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a foundational approach in recommender systems, but it struggles with challenges such as data sparsity and the cold-start problem. Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) has emerged as a promising solution by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jeongeun Lee , Seongku Kang , Won-Yong Shin , Jeongwhan Choi , Noseong Park , Dongha Lee

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful solution for various structure learning applications due to their strong representation capabilities for graph data. However, traditional GNNs, relying on message-passing mechanisms that gather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wei Duan , Jie Lu , Yu Guang Wang , Junyu Xuan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning graph representations and thus facilitating various graph-related tasks. However, most GNN methods adopt a supervised learning setting, which is not always feasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongliang Chi , Yao Ma

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to recommender systems. In recommender systems, the user's feedback behavior on an item is usually the result of multiple factors acting at the same time. However, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yongchun Zhu , Pengpeng Zhao , Xiangliang Zhang , Qing He

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

In recommender systems, user-item interactions can be modeled as a bipartite graph, where user and item nodes are connected by undirected edges. This graph-based view has motivated the rapid adoption of graph neural networks (GNNs), which…

Recommendation systems have become indispensable in various online platforms, from e-commerce to streaming services. A fundamental challenge in this domain is learning effective embeddings from sparse user-item interactions. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yansong Wang , Qihui Lin , Junjie Huang , Tao Jia

In recent years, methods that combine contrastive learning with graph neural networks have emerged to address the challenges of recommendation systems, demonstrating powerful performance and playing a significant role in this domain.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hao Chen , Wenming Ma , Zihao Chu , Mingqi Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been extensively employed in the field of recommendation systems, offering users personalized recommendations and yielding remarkable outcomes. Recently, GNNs incorporating contrastive learning have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shengxi Fu , Qianqian Ren , Xingfeng Lv , Jinbao Li

Session-based recommendation (SBR) systems aim to utilize the user's short-term behavior sequence to predict the next item without the detailed user profile. Most recent works try to model the user preference by treating the sessions as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhongwei Wan , Xin Liu , Benyou Wang , Jiezhong Qiu , Boyu Li , Ting Guo , Guangyong Chen , Yang Wang

Recommendation systems predominantly utilize two-tower architectures, which evaluate user-item rankings through the inner product of their respective embeddings. However, one key limitation of two-tower models is that they learn a…

Recent advances in research have demonstrated the effectiveness of knowledge graphs (KG) in providing valuable external knowledge to improve recommendation systems (RS). A knowledge graph is capable of encoding high-order relations that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yang Gao , Yi-Fan Li , Yu Lin , Hang Gao , Latifur Khan

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. As a promising solution, content-based generative models usually project a cold-start item's content onto a warm-start item embedding to capture collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhihui Zhou , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

Graph collaborative filtering (GCF) has gained considerable attention in recommendation systems by leveraging graph learning techniques to enhance collaborative filtering (CF). One classical approach in GCF is to learn user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Wei Huang , Guandong Xu

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a core technique for recommender systems. Traditional CF approaches exploit user-item relations (e.g., clicks, likes, and views) only and hence they suffer from the data sparsity issue. Items are usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Guangneng Hu

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have shown remarkable performance in different tasks. However, there are a few studies about GNN on recommender systems. GCN as a type of GNNs can extract high-quality embeddings for different entities in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Taher Hekmatfar , Saman Haratizadeh , Parsa Razban , Sama Goliaei