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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become crucial in multimodal recommendation tasks because of their powerful ability to capture complex relationships between neighboring nodes. However, increasing the number of propagation layers in GNNs…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Feng Mo , Lin Xiao , Qiya Song , Xieping Gao , Eryao Liang

The user review data have been demonstrated to be effective in solving different recommendation problems. Previous review-based recommendation methods usually employ sophisticated compositional models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yong Liu , Susen Yang , Yinan Zhang , Chunyan Miao , Zaiqing Nie , Juyong Zhang

This paper studies the problem of class-imbalanced graph classification, which aims at effectively classifying the graph categories in scenarios with imbalanced class distributions. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wei Ju , Zhengyang Mao , Siyu Yi , Yifang Qin , Yiyang Gu , Zhiping Xiao , Jianhao Shen , Ziyue Qiao , Ming Zhang

In recommender systems, knowledge graph (KG) can offer critical information that is lacking in the original user-item interaction graph (IG). Recent process has explored this direction and shows that contrastive learning is a promising way…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haibo Ye , Xinjie Li , Yuan Yao , Hanghang Tong

Graph representation learning nowadays becomes fundamental in analyzing graph-structured data. Inspired by recent success of contrastive methods, in this paper, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised graph representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph neural network (GNN)-based models have been extensively studied for recommendations, as they can extract high-order collaborative signals accurately which is required for high-quality recommender systems. However, they neglect the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Dongjin Yu

Learning informative representations (aka. embeddings) of users and items is the core of modern recommender systems. Previous works exploit user-item relationships of one-hop neighbors in the user-item interaction graph to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jinbo Song , Chao Chang , Fei Sun , Xinbo Song , Peng Jiang

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has achieved great success and has been applied in various fields including recommender systems. However, GCN still suffers from many issues such as training difficulties, over-smoothing, vulnerable to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Shaowen Peng , Tsunenori Mine

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven to be an effective tool for enhancing the performance of recommender systems. However, these systems often suffer from popularity bias, leading to an unfair advantage for frequently interacted items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nemat Gholinejad , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Student dropout is a significant challenge in educational systems worldwide, leading to substantial social and economic costs. Predicting students at risk of dropout allows for timely interventions. While traditional Machine Learning (ML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Pablo G. Almeida , Guilherme A. L. Silva , Valéria Santos , Gladston Moreira , Pedro Silva , Eduardo Luz

Recommender systems and search are both indispensable in facilitating personalization and ease of browsing in online fashion platforms. However, the two tools often operate independently, failing to combine the strengths of recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Karin Sevegnani , Arjun Seshadri , Tian Wang , Anurag Beniwal , Julian McAuley , Alan Lu , Gerard Medioni

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

In recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has received increasing attention in recommender systems due to its effectiveness in reducing bias caused by data sparsity. However, most existing GCL models rely on heuristic approaches and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Zexu Sun , Xu Chen , Jun Xu , Wenhui Yu , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Han Li

Recommender systems are frequently challenged by the data sparsity problem. One approach to mitigate this issue is through cross-domain recommendation techniques. In a cross-domain context, sharing knowledge between domains can enhance the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis , Craig Macdonald

Although the collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm has achieved remarkable performance in recommendation systems, it suffers from suboptimal recommendation performance due to noise in the user-item interaction matrix. Numerous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zefeng Li , Ning Yang

Recommender systems play a crucial role in alleviating information overload by providing personalized recommendations tailored to users' preferences and interests. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Antonio Purificato , Fabrizio Silvestri

Node representation learning has demonstrated its effectiveness for various applications on graphs. Particularly, recent developments in contrastive learning have led to promising results in unsupervised node representation learning for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Öykü Deniz Köse , Yanning Shen

Recommendation Systems are effective in managing the ever-increasing amount of multimodal data available today and help users discover interesting new items. These systems can handle various media types such as images, text, audio, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haimonti Dutta , Pruthvi Moluguri , Jin Dai , Saurabh Amarnath Mahindre

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied into a variety of graph tasks. Most existing work of GNNs is based on the assumption that the given graph data is optimal, while it is inevitable that there exists missing or incomplete edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Qianggang Ding , Deheng Ye , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao

In recent years, pre-training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) through self-supervised learning on unlabeled graph data has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm in graph learning. Although the paradigm is effective for pre-training powerful GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuhan Yang , Xingbo Fu , Jundong Li