Summary of Graph Representation Learning Via Causal Diffusion For Out-of-distribution Recommendation, by Chu Zhao et al.
Graph Representation Learning via Causal Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution Recommendation
by Chu Zhao, Enneng Yang, Yuliang Liang, Pengxiang Lan, Yuting Liu, Jianzhe Zhao, Guibing Guo, Xingwei Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach called graph representation learning via causal diffusion (CausalDiffRec) to improve the generalization of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)-based recommendation algorithms in the presence of out-of-distribution (OOD) data. The authors construct a Structural Causal Model (SCM) to analyze interaction data and reveal that environmental confounders, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, lead to unstable correlations in GNN-based models, impairing their generalization. To address this issue, the proposed method eliminates environmental confounding factors by inferring the real environmental distribution using backdoor adjustment and variational inference. This inferred distribution is then used as prior knowledge to guide representation learning in the reverse phase of the diffusion process, achieving excellent generalization performance in recommendations under distribution shifts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to make recommendation algorithms work better when they encounter data that’s different from what they were trained on. Right now, these algorithms can struggle with this kind of data. The researchers created a special model to understand why this happens and found that it’s often because of external factors like the pandemic. They then developed a new approach called CausalDiffRec that helps remove these external factors so the algorithm can make better predictions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Generalization » Gnn » Inference » Representation learning
