SimGOL: a similarity-based graph optimization and learning framework with flexible fusion for recommender systems
摘要
Recommender systems (RSs) still struggle to effectively model complex, high-dimensional user-item interactions and incorporate contextual information. We propose SimGOL (Similarity-based Graph Optimization and Learning), a graph-based framework that addresses these challenges by modeling user and item interactions as separate graphs via Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and integrating them through a Flexible Fusion Mechanism (FFM). This approach captures similarity-based connections in each graph and uses the FFM’s attention and gating to dynamically fuse the user and item representations. We evaluated our proposed model on six benchmark datasets, ranging from 82,790 to 1,000,209 interactions, comparing its performance against eight state-of-the-art baseline models. SimGOL achieved up to a 4.6% higher average AUC and a 14.3% lower RMSE than the best-performing baseline models across these datasets, demonstrating significantly improved recommendation accuracy. These results highlight SimGOL’s enhanced adaptability and interpretability, underscoring the framework’s robustness and scalability across diverse recommendation scenarios.