Symmetry (Nov 2022)

Personalized Relationships-Based Knowledge Graph for Recommender Systems with Dual-View Items

  • Zhifeng Liu,
  • Xianzhan Zhong,
  • Conghua Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14112386
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 11
p. 2386

Abstract

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The knowledge graph has received a lot of interest in the field of recommender systems as side information because it can address the sparsity and cold start issues associated with collaborative filtering-based recommender systems. However, when incorporating entities from a knowledge graph to represent semantic information, most current KG-based recommendation methods are unaware of the relationships between these users and items. As such, the learned semantic information representation of users and items cannot fully reflect the connectivity between users and items. In this paper, we present the PRKG-DI symmetry model, a Personalized Relationships-based Knowledge Graph for recommender systems with Dual-view Items that explores user-item relatedness by mining associated entities in the KG from user-oriented entity view and item-oriented entity view to augment item semantic information. Specifically, PRKG-DI utilizes a heterogeneous propagation strategy to gather information on higher-order user-item interactions and an attention mechanism to generate the weighted representation of entities. Moreover, PRKG-DI provides a score feature as a filter for individualized relationships to evaluate users’ potential interests. The empirical results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines by 1.6%, 2.1%, and 0.8% on AUC, and 1.8%, 2.3%, and 0.8% on F1 when applied to three real-world scenarios for music, movie, and book recommendations, respectively.

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