LightGCN
Xiangnan He, Kuan Deng, Xiang Wang, Yan Li, Yongdong Zhang, Meng Wang
Abstract
Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has become new state-of-the-art for collaborative filtering. Nevertheless, the reasons of its effectiveness for recommendation are not well understood. Existing work that adapts GCN to recommendation lacks thorough ablation analyses on GCN, which is originally designed for graph classification tasks and equipped with many neural network operations. However, we empirically find that the two most common designs in GCNs -- feature transformation and nonlinear activation -- contribute little to the performance of collaborative filtering. Even worse, including them adds to the difficulty of training and degrades recommendation performance.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceCollaborative filteringConvolution (computer science)GraphRecommender systemArtificial intelligenceArtificial neural networkMachine learningTheoretical computer scienceRecommender Systems and TechniquesAdvanced Graph Neural NetworksImage and Video Quality Assessment