Personalized knowledge-aware recommendation with collaborative and attentive graph convolutional networks

• Published in: Pattern recognition 2022-08, Vol.128, p.108628, Article 108628
• Main Authors: Dai, Quanyu, Wu, Xiao-Ming, Fan, Lu, Li, Qimai, Liu, Han, Zhang, Xiaotong, Wang, Dan, Lin, Guli, Yang, Keping
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Attention mechanism; Graph convolutional network; Knowledge graph; Recommender system
• ISSN: 0031-3203; 1873-5142
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108628

•A new framework (COAT) is proposed for personalized knowledge-aware recommendation.•Collaborative and attentive GNNs are designed to jointly model the UI and KG graphs.•Novel attention mechanisms are designed to achieve personalization.•An efficient graph convolutional layer is employed to tackle the sparsity issue.•COAT outperforms 10 state-of-the-art recommendation methods on benchmark datasets. Knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly used to solve the data sparsity and cold start problems of collaborative filtering. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied to build KG-based recommender systems and achieved competitive performance. However, existing GNN-based methods are either limited in their ability to capture fine-grained semantics in a KG, or insufficient in effectively modeling user-item interactions. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework with collaborative and attentive graph convolutional networks for personalized knowledge-aware recommendation. Particularly, we model the user-item graph and the KG separately and simultaneously with an efficient graph convolutional network and a personalized knowledge graph attention network, where the former aims to extract informative collaborative signals, while the latter is designed to capture fine-grained semantics. Collectively, they are able to learn meaningful node representations for predicting user-item interactions. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with state-of-the-arts.