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Cascading Residual Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-Behavior Recommendation

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Mingshi Yan
程志勇 (Zhiyong Cheng) *
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陈高 (Chen Gao)
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Jing Sun
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Fan Liu
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Fuming Sun
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Haojie Li
DOI:10.1145/3587693delete
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Abstract

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Multi-behavior recommendation exploits multiple types of user-item interactions, such as view and cart, to learn user preferences and has demonstrated to be an effective solution to alleviate the data sparsity problem faced by the traditional models that often utilize only one type of interaction for recommendation. In real scenarios, users often take a sequence of actions to interact with an item, in order to get more information about the item and thus accurately evaluate whether an item fits their personal preferences. Those interaction behaviors often obey a certain order, and more importantly, different behaviors reveal different information or aspects of user preferences towards the target item. Most existing multi-behavior recommendation methods take the strategy to first extract information from different behaviors separately and then fuse them for final prediction. However, they have not exploited the connections between different behaviors to learn user preferences. Besides, they often introduce complex model structures and more parameters to model multiple behaviors, largely increasing the space and time complexity. In this work, we propose a lightweight multibehavior recommendation model named Cascading Residual Graph Convolutional Network (CRGCN for short) for multi-behavior recommendation, which can explicitly exploit the connections between different behaviors into the embedding learning process without introducing any additional parameters (with comparison to the single-behavior based recommendation model). In particular, we design a cascading residual graph convolutional network (GCN) structure, which enables our model to learn user preferences by continuously refining the embeddings across different types of behaviors. The multi-task learning method is adopted to jointly optimize our model based on different behaviors. Extensive experimental results on three real-world benchmark datasets show that CRGCN can substantially outperform the state-of-the-art methods, achieving 24.76%, 27.28%, and 25.10% relative gains on average in terms of HR@K (K = {10, 20, 50, 80}) over the best baseline across the three datasets. Further studies also analyze the effects of leveraging multi-behaviors in different numbers and orders on the final performance.
Keywords:
Collaborative filtering
cold-start
Graph Convolutional Network
multi-behavior recommendation
multi-task learning

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ACM Transactions on Information Systems cover
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
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