Hypergraph Collaborative Filtering With Adaptive Augmentation of Graph Data for Recommendation

Abstract

Self-supervised tasks show significant advantages for node representation learning in recommender systems. This core idea of self-supervised task-based recommender systems depends on data augmentation to generate multi-view representations. However, there are two key challenges that are not well explored in existing self-supervised tasks: i) Restricted by the structure of the graph-based CF paradigm itself, the classical graph comparison learning architecture ignores the global structural information on the user-item interaction graph. ii) In a key part of existing contrast learning-random graph data enhancement schemes can significantly deteriorate model performance. To address these challenges, we propose a new hypergraph collaborative filtering with adaptive augmentation framework(HCFAA). It captures both local and global collaborative relationships on the user-item graph through a hypergraph-enhanced joint learning architecture. In particular, the designed adaptive structure-guided model ignores the noise introduced on unimportant edges, and thus learns the critical node information on the user-item graph. Comprehensive experimental studies on the Amazon dataset show that the method is effective, which provides an optimization scheme with a new perspective for the problems of key node loss in graph data enhancement and loss of higher-order structural information in GNN. The source code of our model can be available on https://github.com/RSnewbie/RS/tree/master/HCFAA.