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Knowledge Memory Graph convolution network for cross-domain recommendation

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Yuhan Wang
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Qing Xie *
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Mengzi Tang
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Zhifeng Bao
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Lin Li
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Yongjian Liu
DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2025.113415delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Cross-domain recommender systems (CDR) address the data sparsity issue by leveraging information from relevant domains. Nowadays, graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely employed to capture higher-order collaborative relationships, further enhancing the effectiveness of CDR in tackling data sparsity. However, GNN-based CDR methods still face challenges in modeling comprehensive user preferences: (1) existing methods relying solely on GNNs struggle to capture fine-grained user preferences (e.g., attribute level) due to limitations in semantic information decomposition; (2) the learned embeddings are highly abstract, making them difficult to understand and interpret; (3) the optimal performance of existing methods typically bottlenecks at layers 2 similar to 4, which is caused by the inherent over-smoothing problem of GNNs. To address these challenges, we propose a method called Knowledge Memory Graph convolution network for Cross-Domain Recommendation (KMGCDR). Specifically, we incorporate an encyclopedic knowledge graph (KG) to enrich the semantic understanding of user behavior. Then, we extend the GNN-based model with a knowledge-enhanced memory network that can store external KG information, aiming to capture user's fine-grained preferences in an interpretable manner. This design can also widen the gap between the low-correlation data and reduce the smoothness of the graph representation. To our best knowledge, this is the first attempt to employ a memory network to address the over-smoothing problem in CDR. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of KMGCDR. Compared to the best-performing SOTA baseline method in six cross-domain scenarios, KMGCDR achieves an average of 10.07% and 5.55% improvements on Amazon and Facebook datasets, respectively.
Keywords:
Cross-domain recommendation
Knowledge graph
Graph neural network
Memory network
Transfer learning

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Knowledge-Based Systems
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7.6
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Wuhan Univ Technol
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RMIT Univ
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