FF-KGAT: Feature Fusion Based Knowledge Graph Attention Network for Recommendation

It is commonly agreed that a recommender system based on knowledge graph (KG) should not only use user-item interactions, but also take side information into account to deal with the problem of data sparsity. However, existing KG-based models present unique challenges that have the shortcoming of cold start and redundant iterations. To address the issue, we propose a Feature Fusion-based Knowledge Graph Attention Network (FF-KGAT) for the recommendation. FF-KGAT handles the cold-start problem through introducing user characteristics to fully explore the information of users. Additionally, FF-KGAT introduces the feature fusion graph, which removes slight nodes to obtain fewer iterations. Experimental results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms baseline methods. Particularly, the ndcg is increased by 9.83% and 10.25% on two public datasets, compared with the best performance of existing methods.