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In recent years, researchers have leveraged social relations to enhance recommendation performance. However, most existing social recommendation methods require carefully designed auxiliary social tasks tailored to specific scenarios, which…

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Graph Neural Network(GNN) based social recommendation models improve the prediction accuracy of user preference by leveraging GNN in exploiting preference similarity contained in social relations. However, in terms of both effectiveness and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yuhan Quan , Jingtao Ding , Chen Gao , Lingling Yi , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

With their vast open-world knowledge and reasoning abilities, large language models (LLMs) have become a promising tool for sequential recommendation. Researchers have explored various methods to harness these capabilities, but most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zewen Long , Liang Wang , Shu Wu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Graph-based social recommendation (SocialRec) has emerged as a powerful extension of graph collaborative filtering (GCF), which leverages graph neural networks (GNNs) to capture multi-hop collaborative signals from user-item interactions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Doyun Choi , Cheonwoo Lee , Biniyam Aschalew Tolera , Taewook Ham , Chanyoung Park , Jaemin Yoo

Social recommendations have been widely adopted in substantial domains. Recently, graph neural networks (GNN) have been employed in recommender systems due to their success in graph representation learning. However, dealing with the dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Behafarid Mohammad Jafari , Xiao Luo , Ali Jafari

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in a wide range of graph-related learning tasks. However, explaining their predictions remains a challenging problem, especially due to the mismatch between the graphs used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhuomin Chen , Jingchao Ni , Hojat Allah Salehi , Xu Zheng , Dongsheng Luo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success as a framework for deep learning on graph-structured data. However, GNNs are fundamentally limited by their tree-structured inductive bias: the WL-subtree kernel formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Dylan Sandfelder , Priyesh Vijayan , William L. Hamilton

Despite the Graph Neural Networks' (GNNs) proficiency in analyzing graph data, achieving high-accuracy and interpretable predictions remains challenging. Existing GNN interpreters typically provide post-hoc explanations disjointed from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zhenhua Huang , Kunhao Li , Shaojie Wang , Zhaohong Jia , Wentao Zhu , Sharad Mehrotra

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a robust framework for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge. Recent advances in RAG have investigated graph based retrieval for intricate reasoning; however, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tejas Sarnaik , Manan Shah , Ravi Hegde

Explainable recommendation is a technique that combines prediction and generation tasks to produce more persuasive results. Among these tasks, textual generation demands large amounts of data to achieve satisfactory accuracy. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hao Cheng , Shuo Wang , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Mingyang Zhou , Kezhong Lu , Hao Liao

Transparency and accountability have become major concerns for black-box machine learning (ML) models. Proper explanations for the model behavior increase model transparency and help researchers develop more accountable models. Graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shichang Zhang , Jiani Zhang , Xiang Song , Soji Adeshina , Da Zheng , Christos Faloutsos , Yizhou Sun

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…

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To comprehensively gauge the capacity of current models for complex reasoning, it is crucial to assess their step-by-step reasoning in a scalable manner. Established reference-based evaluation metrics rely on human-annotated reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hangfeng He , Hongming Zhang , Dan Roth

To take full advantage of fast-growing unlabeled networked data, this paper introduces a novel self-supervised strategy for graph representation learning by exploiting natural supervision provided by the data itself. Inspired by human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhen Peng , Yixiang Dong , Minnan Luo , Xiao-Ming Wu , Qinghua Zheng

In social recommenders, the inherent nonlinearity and opacity of synergistic effects across multiple social networks hinders users from understanding how diverse information is leveraged for recommendations, consequently diminishing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yicong Li , Shan Jin , Qi Liu , Shuo Wang , Jiaying Liu , Shuo Yu , Qiang Zhang , Kuanjiu Zhou , Feng Xia

State-of-the-art in network science of teams offers effective recommendation methods to answer questions like who is the best replacement, what is the best team expansion strategy, but lacks intuitive ways to explain why the optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Qinghai Zhou , Liangyue Li , Nan Cao , Norbou Buchler , Hanghang Tong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular approach for predicting graph structured data. As GNNs tightly entangle the input graph into the neural network structure, common explainable AI approaches are not applicable. To a large extent,…

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

Path-based explanations provide intrinsic insights into graph-based recommendation models. However, most previous work has focused on explaining an individual recommendation of an item to a user. In this paper, we propose summary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Danae Pla Karidi , Evaggelia Pitoura

With the prevalence of social networks on online platforms, social recommendation has become a vital technique for enhancing personalized recommendations. The effectiveness of social recommendations largely relies on the social homophily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chengyi Liu , Jiahao Zhang , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li