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Relational Collaborative Filtering:Modeling Multiple Item Relations for Recommendation
Existing item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) methods leverage only the
relation of collaborative similarity. Nevertheless, there exist multiple
relations between items in real-world scenarios. Distinct from the
collaborative similarity that implies co-interact patterns from the user
perspective, these relations reveal fine-grained knowledge on items from
different perspectives of meta-data, functionality, etc. However, how to
incorporate multiple item relations is less explored in recommendation
research. In this work, we propose Relational Collaborative Filtering (RCF), a
general framework to exploit multiple relations between items in recommender
system. We find that both the relation type and the relation value are crucial
in inferring user preference. To this end, we develop a two-level hierarchical
attention mechanism to model user preference. The first-level attention
discriminates which types of relations are more important, and the second-level
attention considers the specific relation values to estimate the contribution
of a historical item in recommending the target item. To make the item
embeddings be reflective of the relational structure between items, we further
formulate a task to preserve the item relations, and jointly train it with the
recommendation task of preference modeling. Empirical results on two real
datasets demonstrate the strong performance of RCF. Furthermore, we also
conduct qualitative analyses to show the benefits of explanations brought by
the modeling of multiple item relations
Probabilistic Latent Tensor Factorization Model for Link Pattern Prediction in Multi-relational Networks
This paper aims at the problem of link pattern prediction in collections of
objects connected by multiple relation types, where each type may play a
distinct role. While common link analysis models are limited to single-type
link prediction, we attempt here to capture the correlations among different
relation types and reveal the impact of various relation types on performance
quality. For that, we define the overall relations between object pairs as a
\textit{link pattern} which consists in interaction pattern and connection
structure in the network, and then use tensor formalization to jointly model
and predict the link patterns, which we refer to as \textit{Link Pattern
Prediction} (LPP) problem. To address the issue, we propose a Probabilistic
Latent Tensor Factorization (PLTF) model by introducing another latent factor
for multiple relation types and furnish the Hierarchical Bayesian treatment of
the proposed probabilistic model to avoid overfitting for solving the LPP
problem. To learn the proposed model we develop an efficient Markov Chain Monte
Carlo sampling method. Extensive experiments are conducted on several real
world datasets and demonstrate significant improvements over several existing
state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 19pages, 5 figure
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