Self-supervised Graph Disentangled Networks for Review-based Recommendation

Self-supervised Graph Disentangled Networks for Review-based Recommendation

Yuyang Ren, Haonan Zhang, Qi Li, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 2288-2295. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/254

User review data is considered as auxiliary information to alleviate the data sparsity problem and improve the quality of learned user/item or interaction representations in review-based recommender systems. However, existing methods usually model user-item interactions in a holistic manner and neglect the entanglement of the latent intents behind them, e.g., price, quality, or appearance, resulting in suboptimal representations and reducing interpretability. In this paper, we propose a Self-supervised Graph Disentangled Networks for review-based recommendation (SGDN), to separately model the user-item interactions based on the latent factors through the textual review data. To this end, we first model the distributions of interactions over latent factors from both semantic information in review data and structural information in user-item graph data, forming several factor graphs. Then a factorized message passing mechanism is designed to learn disentangled user/item and interaction representations on the factor graphs. Finally, we set an intent-aware contrastive learning task to alleviate the sparsity issue and encourage disentanglement through dynamically identifying positive and negative samples based on the learned intent distributions. Empirical results over five benchmark datasets validate the superiority of SGDN over the state-of-the-art methods and the interpretability of learned intent factors.
Keywords:
Data Mining: DM: Recommender systems
Data Mining: DM: Collaborative filtering