Contextual Semantics Interaction Graph Embedding Learning for Recommender Systems

Abstract

Recommender systems have become an indispensable tool in today's digital age, significantly enhancing user engagement on various online platforms by curating personalized item recommendations tailored to individual preferences. While the field has long been dominated by the collaborative filtering technique, which primarily leverages user–item interaction data, it often falls short in encapsulating the rich contextual intricacies and evolving dynamics inherent to these interactions. Recognizing this limitation, our research introduces the contextual semantic interaction graph embedding (CSI-GE) method. This advanced model incorporates a dynamic hop window within a multilayer graph convolutional network, ensuring a comprehensive extraction of both immediate and evolving contextual features. By amalgamating self-supervised contrastive learning, we achieve a refinement of user and item embeddings. Furthermore, our innovative variance–invariance–covariance (VIC) regularization-based loss function fortifies the robustness of these embeddings. Through rigorous testing, CSI-GE consistently outperformed contemporary methods, underscoring its superior accuracy and stability.