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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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved great success in mining the user-item interactions for collaborative filtering. As a major paradigm, contrastive learning (CL) based SSL helps address data sparsity in Web platforms by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Dan Zhang , Yangliao Geng , Wenwen Gong , Zhongang Qi , Zhiyu Chen , Xing Tang , Ying Shan , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

knowledge graph-based recommendation methods have achieved great success in the field of recommender systems. However, over-reliance on high-quality knowledge graphs is a bottleneck for such methods. Specifically, the long-tailed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yubo Gao , Haotian Wu

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to interactively acquire user preferences and accordingly recommend items to users. Accurately learning the dynamic user preferences is of crucial importance for CRS. Previous works learn the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sen Zhao , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Shuai Zhu , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Dangyang Chen , Feida Zhu

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in exploiting auxiliary information for recommendation tasks. However, graphs constructed using meta-paths in HGNNs are usually too dense and contain a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lei Sang , Yu Wang , Yiwen Zhang

In recommendation, graph-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods mitigate the data sparsity by introducing Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL). However, the random negative sampling strategy in these GCL-based CF models neglects the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Lei Han , Hui Yan , Zhicheng Qiao

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have been utilized as useful side information to improve recommendation quality. In those recommender systems, knowledge graph information often contains fruitful facts and inherent semantic relatedness among items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chenliang Li

A well-informed recommendation framework could not only help users identify their interested items, but also benefit the revenue of various online platforms (e.g., e-commerce, social media). Traditional recommendation models usually assume…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Inspired by the successful application of contrastive learning on graphs, researchers attempt to impose graph contrastive learning approaches on heterogeneous information networks. Orthogonal to homogeneous graphs, the types of nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuanyuan Guo , Yu Xia , Rui Wang , Rongcheng Duan , Lu Li , Jiangmeng Li

Recommender systems are fundamental information filtering techniques to recommend content or items that meet users' personalities and potential needs. As a crucial solution to address the difficulty of user identification and unavailability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaolin Zheng , Rui Wu , Zhongxuan Han , Chaochao Chen , Linxun Chen , Bing Han

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Recommender systems (RecSys) are essential for online platforms, providing personalized suggestions to users within a vast sea of information. Self-supervised graph learning seeks to harness high-order collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henrry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Zhizheng Wang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Most modern recommender systems predict users preferences with two components: user and item embedding learning, followed by the user-item interaction modeling. By utilizing the auxiliary review information accompanied with user ratings,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jie Shuai , Kun Zhang , Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Meng Wang , Yong Li

Recommender systems usually rely on observed user interaction data to build personalized recommendation models, assuming that the observed data reflect user interest. However, user interacting with an item may also due to conformity, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Weiqi Zhao , Dian Tang , Xin Chen , Dawei Lv , Daoli Ou , Biao Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising potential in recommender systems. Existing methods typically construct sparser views by randomly perturbing the original interaction graph, as they have no idea about the authentic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xufeng Liang , Zhida Qin , Chong Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Gangyi Ding

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

Inspired by the success of contrastive learning (CL) in computer vision and natural language processing, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been developed to learn discriminative node representations on graph datasets. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zehong Wang , Qi Li , Donghua Yu , Xiaolong Han , Xiao-Zhi Gao , Shigen Shen

To tackle cold-start and data sparsity issues in recommender systems, numerous multimodal, sequential, and contrastive techniques have been proposed. While these augmentations can boost recommendation performance, they tend to add noise and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield