| Author: | Shu, Honglin |
| Title: | Leveraging graph neural network and meta learning for user cold-start recommendation |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Subject: | Recommender systems (Information filtering) Neural networks (Computer science) Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Department of Computing |
| Pages: | ix, 53 pages : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In the era of rapid generation of data and information, people can easily obtain information from Internet but at the same time they also encounter the problem of information overload. For solving part of the problem, recommendation systems have been widely used in e-commerce, social networks, streaming media, and other web services, such as Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Pinterest, etc. Many companies rely on accurate personalized recommendations to improve user experience and boost companies' development. Personalized recommendations had already revolutionized various web services. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is perhaps the most popular and important approach in recommendation systems, and many novel methods are also improvements based on CF's idea. Although many CF-based methods are used in the recommendation system, they typically suffer from the challenge of cold-start recommendation when the historical interaction of new users is limited. To deal with the problem, many methods use implicit methods to generate user embedding and item embedding, and use various auxiliary information to alleviate the cold-start problem such as user profile, user's social relationship, item information, and even extracting information from the heterogeneous information network. In this thesis entitled "Leveraging Graph Neural Network and Meta Learning for User Cold-start Recommendation", a novel method to deal with user cold-start problem in recommendation systems is explored. Inspired by the distinctive properties of graph convolution network and meta learning, we propose a method that combines a graph auto-encoder-based model and an optimization-based meta learning method to alleviate the user cold-started problem. This method also equips with a random enclosing subgraph sampling, which can randomly sample k-hop enclosing subgraph as the meta learning tasks for existing users, and the r-decaying theory proves that low-hop enclosing subgraph can effectively approximate the heuristics from high-order subgraph. Besides, our experiments have proved the effectiveness of our method. Comparing with some benchmarking models on three data sets, the proposed model achieves competitive results without relying on the side information on two data sets. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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