CFCR: A Convolution and Fusion Model for Cross-platform Recommendation

With the emergence of various online platforms, associating different platforms is playing an increasingly important role in many applications. Cross-platform recommendation aims to improve recommendation accuracy through associating information from different platforms. Existing methods do not fully exploit high-order nonlinear connectivity information in cross-domain recommendation scenario and suffer from domain-incompatibility problem. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end convolution and fusion model for cross-platform recommendation (CFCR). The proposed CFCR model utilizes Graph Convolution Networks (GCN) to extract user and item features on graphs from different platforms, and fuses cross-platform information by Multimodal AutoEncoder (MAE) with common latent user features. Therefore, the high-order connectivity information is preserved to the most extent and domain-invariant user representations are automatically obtained. The domain-incompatible information is spontaneously discarded to avoid messing up the cross-platform association. Extensive experiments for the proposed CFCR model on real-world dataset demonstrate its advantages over existing cross-platform recommendation methods in terms of various evaluation metrics.