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Interest-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation With Diffusion-Based Augmentation
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DOI：10.1109/TKDE.2025.3620600.png)
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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently garnered significant attention for enhancing recommender systems. Most existing GCL-based methods perturb the raw data graph to generate views, performing contrastive learning across these views to learn generalizable representations. However, most of these methods rely on data- or model-based augmentation techniques that may disrupt interest consistency. In this paper, we propose a novel interest-aware augmentation approach based on diffusion models to address this issue. Specifically, we leverage a conditional diffusion model to generate interest-consistent views by conditioning on node interaction information, ensuring that the generated views align with the interests of the nodes. Based on this augmentation method, we introduce DiffCL, a graph contrastive learning framework for recommendation. Furthermore, we propose an easy-to-hard generation strategy. By progressively adjusting the starting point of the reverse denoising process, this strategy further enhances effective contrastive learning. We evaluate DiffCL on three public real-world datasets, and results indicate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, demonstrating its effectiveness.
Keywords:
Graph-based recommendation
contrastive learning
diffusion model
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