Graph-based collaborative filtering has emerged as a powerful paradigm for
delivering personalized recommendations. Despite their demonstrated
effectiveness, these methods often neglect the underlying intents of users,
which constitute a pivotal facet of comprehensive user interests. Consequently,
a series of approaches have arisen to tackle this limitation by introducing
independent intent representations. However, these approaches fail to capture
the intricate relationships between intents of different users and the
compatibility between user intents and item properties.
To remedy the above issues, we propose a novel method, named uniformly
co-clustered intent modeling. Specifically, we devise a uniformly contrastive
intent modeling module to bring together the embeddings of users with similar
intents and items with similar properties. This module aims to model the
nuanced relations between intents of different users and properties of
different items, especially those unreachable to each other on the user-item
graph. To model the compatibility between user intents and item properties, we
design the user-item co-clustering module, maximizing the mutual information of
co-clusters of users and items. This approach is substantiated through
theoretical validation, establishing its efficacy in modeling compatibility to
enhance the mutual information between user and item representations.
Comprehensive experiments on various real-world datasets verify the
effectiveness of the proposed framework.Comment: In submissio