Deep Adversarial Social Recommendation

Deep Adversarial Social Recommendation

Wenqi Fan, Tyler Derr, Yao Ma, Jianping Wang, Jiliang Tang, Qing Li

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 1351-1357. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/187

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on social recommendation techniques for improving the performance of recommender systems due to the growing influence of social networks to our daily life. The majority of existing social recommendation methods unify user representation for the user-item interactions (item domain) and user-user connections (social domain). However, it may restrain user representation learning in each respective domain, since users behave and interact differently in the two domains, which makes their representations to be heterogeneous. In addition, most of traditional recommender systems can not efficiently optimize these objectives, since they utilize negative sampling technique which is unable to provide enough informative guidance towards the training during the optimization process. In this paper, to address the aforementioned challenges, we propose a novel deep adversarial social recommendation framework DASO. It adopts a bidirectional mapping method to transfer users' information between social domain and item domain using adversarial learning. Comprehensive experiments on two real-world datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Keywords:
Humans and AI: Personalization and User Modeling
Machine Learning: Recommender Systems
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Information Retrieval
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Recommender Systems