Affiliation:
1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
2. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea (the Republic of)
3. Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Korea (the Republic of)
Abstract
Social recommender systems (SocialRS) simultaneously leverage the user-to-item interactions as well as the user-to-user social relations for the task of generating item recommendations to users. Additionally exploiting social relations is clearly effective in understanding users’ tastes due to the effects of homophily and social influence. For this reason, SocialRS has increasingly attracted attention. In particular, with the advance of graph neural networks (GNN), many GNN-based SocialRS methods have been developed recently. Therefore, we conduct a comprehensive and systematic review of the literature on GNN-based SocialRS.
In this survey, we first identify 84 papers on GNN-based SocialRS after annotating 2,151 papers by following the PRISMA framework (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses). Then, we comprehensively review them in terms of their inputs and architectures to propose a novel taxonomy: (1) input taxonomy includes five groups of input type notations and seven groups of input representation notations; (2) architecture taxonomy includes eight groups of GNN encoder notations, two groups of decoder notations, and 12 groups of loss function notations. We classify the GNN-based SocialRS methods into several categories as per the taxonomy and describe their details. Furthermore, we summarize benchmark datasets and metrics widely used to evaluate the GNN-based SocialRS methods. Finally, we conclude this survey by presenting some future research directions. GitHub repository with the curated list of papers are available at
https://github.com/claws-lab/awesome-GNN-social-recsys
Funder
NSF
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Microsoft, Google, and The Home Depot
Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation
Korean government
A High-Performance Big-Hypergraph Mining Platform for Real-World Downstream Tasks
Artificial Intelligence Graduate School Program
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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