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As much as Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown tremendous success in recommender systems and collaborative filtering (CF), the mechanism of how they, especially the core components (\textit{i.e.,} neighborhood aggregation)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shaowen Peng , Kazunari Sugiyama , Tsunenori Mine

A growing proportion of human interactions are digitized on social media platforms and subjected to algorithmic decision-making, and it has become increasingly important to ensure fair treatment from these algorithms. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , Ziqian Zeng , Shimei Pan , James Foulds

Graph-based fraud detection (GFD) can be regarded as a challenging semi-supervised node binary classification task. In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been widely applied to GFD, characterizing the anomalous possibility of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Hao Wu , Xuezhi Wen , Xibin Zhao , Hai Wan

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-neighbor (kNN)-based collaborative filtering (CF) remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

Link prediction is a crucial task in network analysis, but it has been shown to be prone to biased predictions, particularly when links are unfairly predicted between nodes from different sensitive groups. In this paper, we study the fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yezi Liu , Hanning Chen , Mohsen Imani

Fairness of recommender systems (RS) has attracted increasing attention recently. Based on the involved stakeholders, the fairness of RS can be divided into user fairness, item fairness, and two-sided fairness which considers both user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yifan Wang , Peijie Sun , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Peng Jiang , Shaoping Ma

Recent research has witnessed the remarkable progress of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the realm of graph data representation. However, GNNs still encounter the challenge of structural imbalance. Prior solutions to this problem did not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ke-Jia Chen , Wenhui Mu , Zheng Liu

Graph-based collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms have gained increasing attention. Existing work in this literature usually models the user-item interactions as a bipartite graph, where users and items are two isolated node sets and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Zekun Li , Yujia Zheng , Shu Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Wang

Recommendation systems (RS) for items (e.g., movies, books) and ads are widely used to tailor content to users on various internet platforms. Traditionally, recommendation models are trained on a central server. However, due to rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Aditya Desai , Benjamin Meisburger , Zichang Liu , Anshumali Shrivastava

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in various learning tasks on graph-structured data. Nevertheless, most GNNs struggle to generalize to heterophilic neighborhoods. Additionally, many GNNs ignore the directional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aihu Zhang , Jiaxing Xu , Mengcheng Lan , Shili Xiang , Yiping Ke

In social recommender systems, it is crucial that the recommendation models provide equitable visibility for different demographic groups, such as gender or race. Most existing research has addressed this problem by only studying individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Meng Cao , Hussain Hussain , Sandipan Sikdar , Denis Helic , Markus Strohmaier , Roman Kern

Graph collaborative filtering (GCF) is a popular technique for capturing high-order collaborative signals in recommendation systems. However, GCF's bipartite adjacency matrix, which defines the neighbors being aggregated based on user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ziwei Fan , Ke Xu , Zhang Dong , Hao Peng , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in addressing graph-related problems, including node classification. However, conventional GNNs assume an even distribution of data across classes, which is often not the case in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zirui Liang , Yuntao Li , Tianjin Huang , Akrati Saxena , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most successful approaches for recommender systems. With the emergence of online social networks, social recommendation has become a popular research direction. Most of these social recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Yanjie Fu , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) have significantly succeeded in learning user and item representations for recommendation systems. The core of their efficacy is the ability to explicitly exploit the collaborative signals from both the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Fan Liu , Shuai Zhao , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

The goal of session-based recommendation (SR) models is to utilize the information from past actions (e.g. item/product clicks) in a session to recommend items that a user is likely to click next. Recently it has been shown that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priyanka Gupta , Diksha Garg , Pankaj Malhotra , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs)-based recommender systems have encountered great success in recommendation. As the number of GNNs approaches rises, some works have started questioning the theoretical and empirical reasons behind…

Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has attracted significant attention and become the most popular method for learning graph representations. In recent years, many efforts have been focused on integrating GCN into the recommender tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kang Liu , Feng Xue , Richang Hong

Recommendation fairness has recently attracted much attention. In the real world, recommendation systems are driven by user behavior, and since users with the same sensitive feature (e.g., gender and age) tend to have the same patterns,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yang Liu , Feng Wu , Xuefang Zhu

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