MGGCL: Motif-guided Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
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Pang, Li
Zhang, Yuqi
Wang, Nancy
Yu, Jian
Huang, Deling
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Graph motifs capture crucial structural patterns within user–item interaction graphs and offer meaningful semantics that are typically underutilised in conventional graph-based collaborative filtering. Existing contrastive learning methods in recommender systems rely primarily on simple perturbations, which limits their ability to leverage deeper motif-based structural information. To address this gap, we propose a novel motif-guided contrastive learning framework for recommender systems. To exploit complementary structural biases inherent to user–item interactions, our approach explicitly incorporates three distinct motifs into the construction of the contrastive view. By contrasting views that capture the structural differences among different motifs, our model learns meaningful group-level relationships and potentially suppresses noise arising from sparse or isolated interactions. Extensive experiments on four real-world recommendation datasets validate that our motif-based contrastive approach achieves the best overall performance, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines on three of the four benchmarks with statistically significant margins on the more skewed datasets, while remaining competitive on the fourth, which demonstrates notable robustness and improved accuracy.
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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4611 Machine Learning, Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD), Bioengineering, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, 08 Information and Computing Sciences, 46 Information and computing sciences, recommender systems, collaborative filtering, graph contrastive learning, network motifs
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Information, ISSN: 2078-2489 (Print); 2078-2489 (Online), MDPI AG, 17(7), 645-645. doi: 10.3390/info17070645
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