IDC-CDR: Cross-domain Recommendation based on Intent Disentanglement and Contrast Learning

Using the user’s past activity across different domains, the cross-domain recommendation (CDR) predicts the items that users are likely to click. Most recent studies on CDR model user interests at the item level. However because items in other domains are inherently heterogeneous, direct modeling of past interactions from other domains to augment user representation in the target domain may limit the effectiveness of recommendation. Thus, in order to enhance the performance of cross-domain recommendation, we present a model called Cross-domain Recommendation based on Intent Disentanglement and Contrast Learning (IDC-CDR) that performs contrastive learning at the intent level between domains and disentangles user interaction intents in various domains. Initially, user–item interaction graphs were created for both single-domain and cross-domain scenarios. Then, by modeling the intention distribution of each user–item interaction, the interaction intention graph and its representation were updated repeatedly. The comprehensive local intent is then obtained by fusing the local domain intents of the source domain and the target domain using the attention technique. In order to enhance representation learning and knowledge transfer, we ultimately develop a cross-domain intention contrastive learning method. Using three pairs of cross-domain scenarios from Amazon and the KuaiRand dataset, we carry out comprehensive experiments. The experimental findings demonstrate that the recommendation performance can be greatly enhanced by IDC-CDR, with an average improvement of 20.62% and 25.32% for HR and NDCG metrics, respectively.