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The recent integration of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into recommendation has led to a novel family of Collaborative Filtering (CF) approaches, namely Graph Collaborative Filtering (GCF). Following the same GNNs wave, recommender systems…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the recommendation tasks and have obtained very appealing performance. However, most GNN-based recommendation methods suffer from the problem of data sparsity in practice. Meanwhile,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yiqi Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Zheng Liu , Mingzheng Li , Jiliang Tang , Xing Xie , Lei Chen , Philip S. Yu

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a widely studied research topic in recommender systems. The learning of a CF model generally depends on three major components, namely interaction encoder, loss function, and negative sampling. While many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kelong Mao , Jieming Zhu , Jinpeng Wang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xi Xiao , Xiuqiang He

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), which fuses graph neural networks with contrastive learning, has evolved as a pivotal tool in user-item recommendations. While promising, existing GCL methods often lack explicit modeling of hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiawei Xue , Zhen Yang , Haitao Lin , Ziji Zhang , Luzhu Wang , Yikun Gu , Yao Xu , Xin Li

Efficiency is crucial to the online recommender systems. Representing users and items as binary vectors for Collaborative Filtering (CF) can achieve fast user-item affinity computation in the Hamming space, in recent years, we have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Chenghao Liu , Tao Lu , Xin Wang , Zhiyong Cheng , Jianling Sun , Steven C. H. Hoi

We consider the problem of learning latent features (aka embedding) for users and items in a recommendation setting. Given only a user-item interaction graph, the goal is to recommend items for each user. Traditional approaches employ…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Rahul Ragesh , Sundararajan Sellamanickam , Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer , Ramakrishna Bairi

Graph Collaborative Filtering (GCF) has emerged as a dominant paradigm in modern recommendation systems, excelling at modeling complex user-item interactions and capturing high-order collaborative signals through graph-structured learning.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Jinze Li , Shuo Yang , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Edith Ngai

Recently, structure-text contrastive learning has shown promising performance on text-attributed graphs by leveraging the complementary strengths of graph neural networks and language models. However, existing methods typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yating Ren , Yikun Ban , Huobin Tan

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

Collaborative Filtering (CF), the most common approach to build Recommender Systems, became pervasive in our daily lives as consumers of products and services. However, challenges limit the effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Miguel G. Silva , Rui Henriques , Sara C. Madeira

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNN) based collaborative filtering (CF) have attracted increasing attention in e-commerce and social media platforms. However, there still lack efforts to evaluate the robustness of such CF systems in deployment.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yongwei Wang , Yong Liu , Zhiqi Shen

We present a novel federated multi-task learning method that leverages cross-client similarity to enable personalized learning for each client. To avoid transmitting the entire model to the parameter server, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ahmed Elbakary , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Contrastive learning is a significant paradigm in graph self-supervised learning. However, it requires negative samples to prevent model collapse and learn discriminative representations. These negative samples inevitably lead to heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yunhui Liu , Huaisong Zhang , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao

Graph-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

Learning vector representations (aka. embeddings) of users and items lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Ranging from early matrix factorization to recently emerged deep learning based methods, existing efforts typically obtain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Meng Wang , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Graph similarity learning refers to calculating the similarity score between two graphs, which is required in many realistic applications, such as visual tracking, graph classification, and collaborative filtering. As most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Di Jin , Luzhi Wang , Yizhen Zheng , Xiang Li , Fei Jiang , Wei Lin , Shirui Pan

In e-commerce search, personalized retrieval is a crucial technique for improving user shopping experience. Recent works in this domain have achieved significant improvements by the representation learning paradigm, e.g., embedding-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Longbin Li , Chao Zhang , Sen Li , Yun Zhong , Qingwen Liu , Xiaoyi Zeng

Recent advances in neural networks have inspired people to design hybrid recommendation algorithms that can incorporate both (1) user-item interaction information and (2) content information including image, audio, and text. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Yue Shi , Liangjie Hong

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) plays an important role in exploring complementary information for multi-view clustering (MVC) and has attracted increasing attention. Nevertheless, real-world multi-view data suffer from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hongqing He , Jie Xu , Wenyuan Yang , Yonghua Zhu , Guoqiu Wen , Xiaofeng Zhu