Summary of Graph Augmentation For Recommendation, by Qianru Zhang and Lianghao Xia and Xuheng Cai and Siuming Yiu and Chao Huang and Christian S. Jensen
Graph Augmentation for Recommendation
by Qianru Zhang, Lianghao Xia, Xuheng Cai, Siuming Yiu, Chao Huang, Christian S. Jensen
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a framework called GraphAug, which addresses challenges in applying graph contrastive learning (GCL) to real-world recommendation systems. The main issues it tackles are the lack of consideration for data noise in GCL, leading to noisy self-supervised signals, and the reliance on graph neural network (GNN) architectures that can suffer from over-smoothing due to non-adaptive message passing. To overcome these challenges, GraphAug incorporates a robust data augmentor that generates denoised self-supervised signals, enhancing recommender systems. GraphAug also introduces a graph information bottleneck (GIB)-regularized augmentation paradigm, which automatically distills informative self-supervision information and adaptively adjusts contrastive view generation. Through rigorous experimentation on real-world datasets, the paper demonstrates the superiority of GraphAug over existing baseline methods. The proposed framework is particularly relevant to recommendation systems, where expressive user representations are crucial even when labeled data is limited. By leveraging graph contrastive learning, GraphAug can learn robust and informative user embeddings that outperform traditional GNN-based approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to make recommendation systems better by using graphs and learning from unlabeled data. The main problem it solves is noisy data, which can happen when there’s not much labeled data available. It also deals with another issue where graph neural networks (GNNs) might get confused because they’re too similar. The solution is called GraphAug, and it uses a special kind of noise reduction to make the learning process cleaner. This helps create better user representations, which are important for recommending things people will like. The paper tests this new approach on real-world data and shows that it works better than other methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Gnn * Graph neural network * Self supervised
