Learning Social Graph for Inactive User Recommendation

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Title: Learning Social Graph for Inactive User Recommendation
Authors: Liu, Nian, Fan, Shen, Bai, Ting, Wang, Peng, Sun, Mingwei, Mo, Yanhu, Xu, Xiaoxiao, Liu, Hong, Shi, Chuan
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Computer Science - Information Retrieval, Computer Science - Machine Learning
More Details: Social relations have been widely incorporated into recommender systems to alleviate data sparsity problem. However, raw social relations don't always benefit recommendation due to their inferior quality and insufficient quantity, especially for inactive users, whose interacted items are limited. In this paper, we propose a novel social recommendation method called LSIR (\textbf{L}earning \textbf{S}ocial Graph for \textbf{I}nactive User \textbf{R}ecommendation) that learns an optimal social graph structure for social recommendation, especially for inactive users. LSIR recursively aggregates user and item embeddings to collaboratively encode item and user features. Then, graph structure learning (GSL) is employed to refine the raw user-user social graph, by removing noisy edges and adding new edges based on the enhanced embeddings. Meanwhile, mimic learning is implemented to guide active users in mimicking inactive users during model training, which improves the construction of new edges for inactive users. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that LSIR achieves significant improvements of up to 129.58\% on NDCG in inactive user recommendation. Our code is available at~\url{https://github.com/liun-online/LSIR}.
Comment: This paper has been received by DASFAA 2024
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05288
Accession Number: edsarx.2405.05288
Database: arXiv
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